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On 7/28/15 11:06 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>    Recently, being away from the keyboard, I wondered whether
>    the following was legal in Java:
>
> public final class Main
> { public static void main( final java.lang.String[] args )
>    { int a[] ={ 0, a[ 0 ] + 1, a[ 1 ]+ 1 };
>     java.lang.System.out.println( a[ 0 ]);
>     java.lang.System.out.println( a[ 1 ]);
>     java.lang.System.out.println( a[ 2 ]); }}
>
>    Turned out, I got an error message:
>
> Main.java:3: error: variable a might not have been initialized
>    { int a[] ={ 0, a[ 0 ]+ 1, a[ 1 ]+ 1 };
>                    ^
> 1 error
>


Yep, that makes total sense. I wouldn't expect anything different.