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From: "glen herrmannsfeldt" <glen.herrmannsfeldt@1:261/38.remove-t9h-this>
Subject: Re: why does this work?
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  To: Roedy Green
From: glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>

Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote:

(snip)

> There is no new in the constructor, so why would it be recursive?

> There is no more reason for the constructor to be recursive than any
> other method.  The constructor does not reinvoke the constructor.

But if there IS a new in the constructor...


-- glen

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