Re: Illogical constructor behaviour?

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From: Tor Iver Wilhelmsen
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 00:00

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Tom.Eugelink@OVSoftware.com writes:

> Ah, no. That is not what I mean with: when allocating instance
> variable memory also initialize instance variables, do not wait for
> the constructor to be entered. 

Well, they _are_ initialized to null and 0 and 0.0 and 0.0f and 0L
depending on the type: Everything else needs to be done via code, thus
needs to be in a method. A constructor is such a method.

The alternative would have been to add a "default data segment" to
class files, and then put constant initialization there.

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