The approximate union of the individual packages. The total package may
contain several .class files with the same name, rather than just one.
The early-terminating linear search through the individual packages
approximates a single element, but is not commutative: searching the classpaths
/a:/b may produce results different from searching /b:/a if the
packages in both directories each have a different .class file with the
same name.
This page last modified on 24 January 2006.