Library standardization

[Bill Baxter]

Robert Fraser wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
>> Oh, I see what you mean.  I suppose one could argue that package 
>> methods are
>> effectively static, but it still seems a bit weird to me.  Can they 
>> access instance
>> variables?
>>
>>
>> Sean
> 
> Yes, of course. What's your argument for "effectively static"? "package" 
> is just a protection attribute, just like "public", "private", and 
> "protected"; I don't see the static-ness involved at all.
> 
> Maybe "package" means something different in another language? I'm just 
> coming from a Java background where package-protection is the default & 
> quite common.

What is a "package" in Java exactly?  Does a package correspond to one 
source file in Java?  Or a directory like D?

I seem to remember some rule of only one main class per .java and the 
name of the class must match the name of the file.

--bb