Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.albasani.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!feeder2.ecngs.de!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 02:42:32 -0600 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 08:42:32 +0000 From: lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> Organization: Trollbusters 3 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120410 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: unused statics? References: <263f14ba-8542-4ec5-9e23-0a91da46e62d@googlegroups.com> <8cfbd2b9-1941-45d1-865b-1a7b5f9c515e@googlegroups.com> <51019d7f$0$291$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <5101bec0$0$283$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <8b069e2e-93d3-4356-b2ae-23408c392228@googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <8b069e2e-93d3-4356-b2ae-23408c392228@googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Lines: 17 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-niAoi5GnepxV01d/KBYPH4aOH1L3Jh9YAbnjdAo7d4+8MViP7oV1ZFfA9sMkVgBNcrZEKQXszMu8RAt!lb9g30tXhoCqEyha+oLA2VTK2sOTWDjfBzhOz93II0o+wwAEc+5pqDJNX8nNtL9aM1WkM6H7424= X-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1921 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:21699 On 25/01/13 01:16, Lew wrote: > Arne Vajhøj wrote: >> Patricia Shanahan wrote: >>> Arne Vajh�j wrote: >>>> Lew wrote: >>>>> Why was it assigned its default value redundantly? >>>> Sometimes it improves readability. > > Not this time. Was it the OP's intention? Why not let the OP answer? Speechless ... lipska -- Lipska the Kat©: Troll hunter, sandbox destroyer and farscape dreamer of Aeryn Sun