why do we have atmost one public class in a source file

[divyasheel sharma]

Dear friends,
Pls explain me why do we have only one public class atmost in a source file and why the class name shall match the unextended file name, is this a convention? Why?
Rgds
Divya

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[Daniel Searson]

Hi Divya,
The reason for this is to force a coding convention onto programmers. If you are looking at somebody else's source, then all you should be interested in is the public classes. If the public classes are in files of the same name, its easy to find them. I believe thats the the theory anyway...

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- Daniel

[divyasheel sharma]

Thanks Daniel!
-Divya
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