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From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Re: calling own methods from constructor
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Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> wrote:
> In Java evaluating new Bar() will throw an exception.  But in C++ the
> equivalent code would print
> Override me! I dare you.
> Two guys walk into a...

I think, C++'s semantics are *better* for this case, but probably at
a price, that made it reasonable for Java to find a different tradeoff.