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In article <3aa29a70_1@dnews>, sandelf <sandelf@poczta.onet.pl> writes
>> I am not sure what you are asking. Why should it *not* be
>> possible to create an instance of a class inside main or any
>> other method for that matter?
>
>I mean recursive instantiation of a class inside its definition.
>How it is achieved, why there is no infinitive chain of creation?

 OK, this is difficult to explain.  

 In C++ you can specify that instances of a class literally
 contain the storage of an array, or another class object.  
 If you said that   class C1  contains the actual storage
 of another  class C1, then you would be in trouble; but
 it could contain a pointer to another class C1.

 In Java if a variable holds a class or array object then
 it actually holds a REFERENCE (effectively a pointer) to
 that object.  So   class c1   can perfectly well contain
 a variable which is a    c1 ,  because it will be a reference 
 to that object rather than literally its storage.  HTH.


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