Forward references...

[Neil Mac]

The Mughal Java cert book I'm currently studying states that
"An instance initializer cannot make forward rererences to member varibles declared after the initializer"
However, the following code compiles and runs fine....
public class Driver{
{
att2 = false;
}
private boolean att2 = true;
...
...

The only difference I can see is that the book refers to Java 1.2 but the compiler I'm using is Java 1.4. Is this something that has changed ? Or am I missing something ludicrously simple here
Thanks.

[fred rosenberger]

Originally posted by Spider Man:
The Mughal Java cert book I'm currently studying states that
"An instance initializer cannot make forward rererences to member varibles declared after the initializer"

I'm not sure, haven't tried it, but too me this looks like it's saying you can't to this

 
public class Driver{
{
boolean b = att2;
}
private boolean att2 = true;

but again, i haven't tried it - not in a place where i have a sandbox to play in.