RE: Have you seen anything like this?

I am gasping the language pretty good. I just don't use it in real life yet. 
Here at work I am still using RPG, but I am hoping to get into a bit of Java 
this year.

On Thu, 07 March 2002, "Ducret, Gilles (CH)" wrote:

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> It is what we call a static initializer.
>
> It is very usefull to initialize any static information related to
> a class. You can also make sure in that initializer that the ressources
> you will need for the instances of that class are available.
>
> It is loaded the first time it is used.
>
> You will discover later how usefull it is when you will understand what
> static variables are.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Wills [mailto:programmer@koldark.net]
> Sent: mercredi, 6. mars 2002 20:09
> To: java400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Have you seen anything like this?
>
>
> In my java class yesterday, my instructor went over a new constructor type
> thing. He called it a class constructor. Here is an example:
>
> public class Test {
>    static {
>        set of instructions here
>    }
>
>    Test() {
>        set of instructions here
>    }
>
>    .
>    .
>    .
> }
>
> Basically what he said it does is to set up some initial class based stuff
> the first time the class is used in the program. Like we are going over
> linked lists, and he used the example of setting up a dummy node.
>
> Has any seen something like this before? What is it actually called?
>
> I would like to tell him, "Yes that is what it is called," or "It is
> actually called ...." <VBG>
>
> Thanks,
>
> ---------
> Mike Wills
> AS400 Programmer
> programmerATkoldarkDOTnet
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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger 
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better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.
-Robert Cringley
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