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Judge:No Need Public Menthods In None-Public Class

Posted by VDonkey on December 27, 2000 at 8:14 PM

I think that
if one class was not public, all methods of it need not to be public, (at least on most occasions).
for:
if another class in the same package who want to use methods in the class, it will work without modifier(or to say with default 'friendly'),
on the other hand, if another class not in the same package who want to use methods in the class, it will be impossible for he can't even access the class, not to mention the methods.

But there are too many examples showing public methods defined in none-public classes. I am confused.
eg:
class Cleanser{
private String s = new String("Cleanser");
public void append(String a){s+=a;}
public void dilute(){append(" dilute()");}
public void ...
...
(quoted from "Thinking in java Chapter Six 6.2")
Help me, please. Thank you.

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