Have you seen anything like this?

[Mike Wills <programmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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,

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Mike Wills
AS400 Programmer
programmerATkoldarkDOTnet

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