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From: "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: calling own methods from constructor
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 22:06:19 -0700
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"Tom Anderson" <twic@urchin.earth.li> wrote in message 
news:alpine.DEB.2.00.1104072305290.25031@urchin.earth.li...
>
> No. getClass() is final, not virtual, it is never overridden, and it does
> not behave like it has been overridden. Rather, it behaves like its
> implementation was:
>
> public Class getClass() {
>  return this.class;
> }
>
> Where all objects have a secret magic hidden field called 'class' which is
> set by the VM when they are allocated.

That's how I've always thought about it, particularly since in 4GLs I've 
helped implement, that's exactly what the analogous method did.