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why to save same name as class
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pradipta kumar rout
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Joined: Sep 13, 2010
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Sir,
As we know that to save the java file when the class is public ,we have to give the same name to both class and the fie.
but why this is ?
kindly give me some sugesstion .
Thank you
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Steve Luke
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Joined: Jan 28, 2003
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The compiler has to have some way to find the .java files it needs to compile, and to link those .java files with the classes which are stored in them and required elsewhere. The makers of Java decided that the way to provide the link between the .java file and the Class name was to force them to be the same,
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Matthew Brown
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Joined: Apr 06, 2010
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Because that's the way the language is designed. It's one of those things that's not worth thinking too much about - the language designers had various decisions to make, and this was what they decided. Why use semi-colons at the end of the line? Because that's how it works.
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Hunter McMillen
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Joined: Mar 13, 2009
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In addition to Matthew's post, it have something to do with abstraction. If we as the Java programmer had to worry about things like likes classes and files having the same name and what symbol to use at the end of the line to terminate a command(";" or "." or " ") programming in Java would be A LOT more complicated. It is abstraction that gives high-level languages the ease of programming we know as Java or PHP or Visual Basic programmers.
[url]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction#Abstraction_in_computer_science[/url]
Hunter
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