Re: Non static block and constructor

From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>
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comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:27:33 -0500
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asit wrote:

yesterday I read ab Non Static block.

I tried the following code

public class NonSta
{
        int i;
        NonSta()
        {
                System.out.println("Constructor");
                i++;
                System.out.println(i);
        }
        {
                System.out.println("Non Static Block");
                i += 10;
                System.out.println(i);
                add(100);
                new NonSta();
        }
        void add(int k)
        {
                System.out.println("Add Block");
                i += k;
                System.out.println(i);
        }
        public static void main(String args[])
        {
                NonSta n = new NonSta();
        }
}

I found that it becomes an infinite loop if the non static block
contains a call to constructor.

Does it logically imply "Non static block can't contain a
constructor".


You will have to check the JLS and the JVM spec to find out what
exactly is specified for this case.

It seems obvious to me that it should not work well.

The static initializer should start and complete before
any instances of the class is created.

So creating an instance in the static initialized does
not make any sense to me.

Whether it should be a compile time error or a runtime
error or what runtime error must be in the specs somewhere.

Arne

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