RE: Have you seen anything like this?

["Clapham, Paul" <pclapham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Java Language Specification
(http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/classes.doc.html#392
45) calls that a "static initializer".

PC2

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Wills [mailto:programmer@koldark.net]
Sent: March 6, 2002 11:09
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>