modulepath and classpath mixture

[Alan Bateman]

On 23/03/2016 13:02, Russell Gold wrote:
> :
>
> Why does the module concept even need to exist at that point? Seems to me that it is much simpler to treat them as classes on the class path rather than a module. The module status can come in during packaging, no?
>
I'm not sure that I understand your mail. Are you asking why are modules 
are supported at compile-time? Or are you asking why the compiler 
doesn't allow packages to be split between the unnamed module and a 
named module?

-Alan.