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Re: automatically initialized to null?

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From	"bob smith" <bob.smith@1:261/38.remove-k2r-this>
Subject	Re: automatically initialized to null?
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  To: markspace
From: bob smith <bob@coolfone.comze.com>

On Wednesday, August 8, 2012 3:20:08 PM UTC-5, markspace wrote:
> On 8/8/2012 12:23 PM, bob smith wrote:
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> > I always forget stuff like thisa
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> > If I have
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> > Bitmap[] bmps = new Bitmap[256];
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> > Are all 256 positions automatically initialized to null?
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> Yes.  I'm sure that's in the JLS someplace.  And just about every noob
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> tutorial and "Learn Java" book.  But yes, all uninitialized static or
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> instance fields and all arrays are set to null.  Note this excludes
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> local variables.

Why does Eclipse seem to frequently tell me to explicitly initialize a 
reference to null?

Is it kind of being paranoid?

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automatically initialized to null? "bob smith" <bob.smith@1:261/38.remove-k2r-this> - 2012-08-09 18:44 +0000
  Re: automatically initialized to null? "markspace" <markspace@1:261/38.remove-k2r-this> - 2012-08-09 18:44 +0000
    Re: automatically initialized to null? "Mike Winter" <mike.winter@1:261/38.remove-k2r-this> - 2012-08-09 18:44 +0000
      Re: automatically initialized to null? "Lew" <lew@1:261/38.remove-k2r-this> - 2012-08-09 18:44 +0000
        Re: automatically initialized to null? "Jim Gibson" <jim.gibson@1:261/38.remove-k2r-this> - 2012-08-09 18:44 +0000
    Re: automatically initialized to null? "bob smith" <bob.smith@1:261/38.remove-k2r-this> - 2012-08-09 18:44 +0000
      Re: automatically initialized to null? "Eric Sosman" <eric.sosman@1:261/38.remove-tos-this> - 2012-08-09 19:46 +0000
        Re: automatically initialized to null? "bob smith" <bob.smith@1:261/38.remove-t9h-this> - 2012-08-10 18:39 +0000
  Re: automatically initialized to null? "Roedy Green" <roedy.green@1:261/38.remove-k2r-this> - 2012-08-09 18:44 +0000

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