Chapter 4, ex 18

20:54 -- Starting 4.18, Java version
20:57 -- Done

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// ch04_ex18.java
class ch04_ex18 {
  String string1;
  {
    string1 = "init in instance init area";
  }
  void demo_init() {
    System.out.println( "string1: " + string1 );
  }
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    ch04_ex18 obj = new ch04_ex18();
    obj.demo_init();
  }
}
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Bruce says, "Describe a use for this feature (other than the one specified in this book [i.e. to support the initialization of anonymous inner classes])." I must admit, I can't see a use for this facility (yet :). It seems to me that everything you could do in the non-static instance initialization, you could do in a constructor. I suppose having a non-static instance initialization sequence allows you to put common constructor code in a single place -- but you could put it in a normal method which you just call from the constructor, too. *shrug* I dunno.

This exercise doesn't really apply to Common Lisp/CLOS.

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