Shortcut or real syntax.

I have this book that uses this statement to print stuff at the command line:

Code:

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out.println();

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I never can get this to compile. So I was wondering if the authors were just to lazy to add the System part, or is something up with my compiler.(which I seriously doubt)

By the way, I have 1.5.

Either they're too lazy or they have a out variable somewhere in the test class that they set to System.out. Or, since this is 1.5, they might have done a static import.

Thank you. Since they do this in some of their examples, and don't have any static imports, my guess is that they are too lazy. Pretty sad huh.

I finally figured out what they were doing. In one of their examples way later in the book, they have a (PrintStream out) as one of the paremeters for their constructors. Then they are just using out.println();