X-Received: by 10.66.84.164 with SMTP id a4mr695913paz.26.1359062155630; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:15:55 -0800 (PST) Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!ld4no15220603pbb.0!news-out.google.com!s9ni15829pbb.0!nntp.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:15:54 -0600 Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:15:55 -0800 From: Patricia Shanahan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: unused statics? References: <263f14ba-8542-4ec5-9e23-0a91da46e62d@googlegroups.com> <8cfbd2b9-1941-45d1-865b-1a7b5f9c515e@googlegroups.com> <51019d7f$0$291$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> In-Reply-To: <51019d7f$0$291$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Message-ID: Lines: 13 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.230.205.210 X-Trace: sv3-fRjthWGz2SJoh+A4tPemd4u3Husd8lPZr0psNkSFFNflChTl8nv++eHlWBea8YnzO9+nVbIsHlHy1Xj!ozfCYkvKo0Wg9o3Lw6rsJZNlSrMfo0wLzeLIeWqep354fwex64L+80KrLd2ZdymuNjVXRhh6s1mg!e+tzBV9IvYULBtww/mUqPnXlnuZP20hSLlTUD25XLalLJ6s= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1618 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:21668 On 1/24/2013 12:45 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: > On 1/24/2013 3:31 PM, Lew wrote: >> Why was it assigned its default value redundantly? > > Sometimes it improves readability. I often do that as a note to myself. It means I do expect to use the initial value, have considered what the initial value should be, and have chosen 0. Patricia