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Subject: Re: "Small" Program Challenge.
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:26:09 -0400
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On 19/06/2012 8:07 AM, David Lamb wrote:
> On 18/06/2012 7:48 PM, javax.swing.JSnarker wrote:
>> You are confused. You seem to be thinking the order is
>
> Lew quoted the JLS. You ought to be arguing with its words, not his. I
> don't pretend to have dug into the issue far enough to argue it one way
> or another, but what matters isn't what any specific implementation
> does, nor what you or Lew or I thinks the semantics *ought* to be. What
> matters is what the JLS says.

And the JLS *clearly* says that initialization *precedes* invocation.

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public final class JSnarker
extends JComponent
A JSnarker is an NNTP-aware component that asynchronously provides 
snarky output when the Ego.needsPuncturing() event is fired in cljp.