Namespaces in Java...

Question

Hi there.
Relatively new to java, I am trying to find out if there are ways of namespacing (if that is the correct term) in Java.
F.x. if the line
return Math.pow ( num, 2);
could be reduced to
return pow ( num, 2);
by applying some code above..
Thanks in advance
-T

Answer 1

In Java 5 you can use import static.
e.g.
import static java.lang.Math.*;
import static java.lang.Double.*;
import static java.lang.System.*;
public class C {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        double x = parseDouble(args[0]);
        double y = parseDouble(args[1]);
        out.println("The function "+x+" ^ "+y+" is "+pow(x,y));
}