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The code is from Dan's Exam :


Pls. clear it.

Mohit Agarwal.
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Try to analyze it keeping in mind that an interface's constants are only initialized when they are actually needed.

v is certainly needed because it is printed, but are E.w, F.x, F.y and F.z?
[ October 04, 2004: Message edited by: Barry Gaunt ]
 
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Yes, Bary that's what i find out when i experimented with the code,
but really i don't know that "an interface's constants are only initialized when they are actually needed. "
But they are implicitly final vars which are to be initialized befor the constructor completes .

I had read this. I am using kathy and Bert.

Pls. clear it more.


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Try the following code out:

 
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Hi Tom,

I have tried your code and it runs without any problem but my question is " why it doesn't print 'w'?".

I know it is in the parent interface of E, but when child interface is executed then why not Parent interface.


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I am sorry Tom i didn't get your point.
Moreover my Q remains unanswered.
Pls. let me know about that.


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The answer to your question lies in this section of JLS

What Tom's example points out is that when an interface is initialized (because one of the members in used) then all of the members of the interface are initialized in texual order.

And that superinterfaces are not necessarily initialized when extension interfaces are.
[ October 05, 2004: Message edited by: Barry Gaunt ]
 
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