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		syncsynchalt on Feb 17, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How domains became backwards In the initial implementation package names were literally mapped to a path with the equivalent of subst(".", "/"). So in that sense the java package names are based on the hierarchy of a filesystem.

greenyoda on Feb 17, 2013 [–]

Also, the method name goes to the right of the class name, so the only reasonable way to have a hierarchical name that reads in a single direction is to put the most general qualifier on the left and the most specific on the right:

com.mydomain.mypackage.MyClass.staticMethod()

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