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Re: automatically initialized to null?

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From	bob smith <bob@coolfone.comze.com>
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Subject	Re: automatically initialized to null?
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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 this…
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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@coolfone.comze.com> - 2012-08-08 12:23 -0700
  Re: automatically initialized to null? markspace <-@.> - 2012-08-08 13:20 -0700
    Re: automatically initialized to null? Mike Winter <usenet@michael-winter.me.invalid> - 2012-08-08 21:32 +0100
      Re: automatically initialized to null? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-08-08 17:36 -0700
        Re: automatically initialized to null? Jim Gibson <jimsgibson@gmail.com> - 2012-08-08 18:06 -0700
    Re: automatically initialized to null? bob smith <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2012-08-09 09:12 -0700
      Re: automatically initialized to null? Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-08-09 14:34 -0400
        Re: automatically initialized to null? bob smith <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2012-08-10 08:53 -0700
  Re: automatically initialized to null? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-08-09 02:38 -0700

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