Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: glen herrmannsfeldt Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: why does this work? Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 20:17:24 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <2b17285jdvg8r3rnt05tpshqjcm59g1icu@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: H0vc4U5LIRkRHNPyGCs2dA.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: tin/1.9.6-20100522 ("Lochruan") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.32-5-amd64 (x86_64)) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:17566 Roedy Green wrote: (snip) > There is no new in the constructor, so why would it be recursive? > There is no more reason for the constructor to be recursive than any > other method. The constructor does not reinvoke the constructor. But if there IS a new in the constructor... -- glen