I forgot what is the difference!

[Hussein Baghdadi]

Hi, I'm John.
Hi John
I forgot what is the difference between:

public class Oops {
  private Date d = new Date();
}

And:

public class Oops {
  private Date d;
  
  public Oops() {
    d = new Date();
  }
}

I forgot what is the difference, what a shame!

[Ilja Preuss]

I don't think there is one. To be sure, you could take a look at the byte code the compiler produces for both versions: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/tooldocs/windows/javap.html