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| From | Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> |
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| Subject | Re: automatically initialized to null? |
| Date | Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:34:21 -0400 |
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On 8/9/2012 12:12 PM, bob smith wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 8, 2012 3:20:08 PM UTC-5, markspace wrote:
>> On 8/8/2012 12:23 PM, bob smith wrote:
>>
>>> If I have
>>> Bitmap[] bmps = new Bitmap[256];
>>> Are all 256 positions automatically initialized to null?
>>
>> Yes. I'm sure that's in the JLS someplace. And just about every noob
>> tutorial and "Learn Java" book. But yes, all uninitialized static or
>> instance fields and all arrays are set to null. Note this excludes
>> local variables.
>
> Why does Eclipse seem to frequently tell me to explicitly initialize a reference to null?
>
> Is it kind of being paranoid?
Did you see the part about "excludes local variables?" Maybe
that's what Eclipse is complaining about, and not about class or
instance fields, or array elements.
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Eric Sosman
esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid
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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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