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static final fields and static initializers
Posted by Thierry Bezecourt on 22 May 1998, 2:39 AM
I am reading your April article in JavaWorld. You write that :
"References to static final variables initialized to a compile-time constant
are resolved at compile-time to a local copy of the constant value". So, apparently, the static initializer is not called when a final
static member is used. The sample code below illustrates that.
Don't you think it might be confusing ? Sample code :
public class FinalTest
{
public static void main(String argv[]) {
System.out.println("final = "+Loaded.x);
// The static initializer of Loaded in the following line :
System.out.println("non-final = "+Loaded.y);
}
}
class Loaded
{
static {
System.out.println("\tInitialization of Loaded");
}
public static final String x = "final";
public static String y = "non-final";
}
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