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Subject: Re: automatically initialized to null?
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  To: bob smith
From: markspace <-@.>

On 8/8/2012 12:23 PM, bob smith wrote:
> I always forget stuff like thisa
>
> If I have
>
> Bitmap[] bmps = new Bitmap[256];
>
> Are all 256 positions automatically initialized to null?
>


Yes.  I'm sure that's in the JLS someplace.  And just about every noob tutorial 
and "Learn Java" book.  But yes, all uninitialized static or instance fields 
and all arrays are set to null.  Note this excludes local variables.

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