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From: glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: trigger static init
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 09:18:04 +0000 (UTC)
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Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote:
> What is the canonical way to explicitly trigger a static class to load
> and run thestatic init without actually invoking a real method?

> you can't necessarily use newInstance since the class may not 
> have constructors. 

As far as I know, a class automatically has a no argument constructor,
even if you don't write one.

class myclass {
   static int x;
}

compiles just fine, as does creating an object from it.

> Do you have to invent some dummy static method?

Not that I know of.

-- glen