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Re: [ide-dev] Why we dropped Eclipse in favour of IntelliJ | Java Code Geeks

To be fair, you can simply exclude java.awt.* from imports altogether..

On 2013-09-22, at 7:36 AM, Robin Stocker <robin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2013/09/why-we-dropped-eclipse-in-favour-of-intellij.html
> 
> The problem with List is still there. Having "Organize Imports" as
> save action, type the following:
> 
>    List<String> l = new ArrayList<String>();
> 
> Now save. What happens: ArrayList is automatically imported because
> there is only one possibility. Good.
> 
> But List is not. Now invoke quick fix on it. The proposals are:
> 
> 1. Import 'List' (java.awt)
> 2. Import 'List' (java.util)
> 
> Not helpful. Just for fun, select the first entry. The result
> is an error, because java.awt.List is not generic.
> 
> Even if it was generic, it would still be an error, because
> ArrayList is not a subtype of java.awt.List.
> 
> So the right thing to do in this case would be to just import
> the only valid possibility, java.util.List.
> 
> IntelliJ probably gets this right, and I can imagine it being
> one of the reasons people prefer it.
> 
> Can we really not do any better?
> 
> I know about Code Recommenders, but last time I checked, it
> only reordered JDT's proposals. IMO the proposals leading to
> errors should not be proposed in the first place so that the
> extra key presses for invoking quick fix are not necessary.
> 
> I would be surprised if the above was not already in Bugzilla
> somewhere, but I couldn't find it right away. I'll report it
> in case it's really not yet known.
> 
> Regards,
>  Robin Stocker
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