Just make sure you don't do that in the constructor (with the same parameters) or directly from the declaration of an instance field or you will get a StackOverflowError:
If we change the first constructor to the following it will also go wrong:
This is because in all examples documented as problematic, creating a new
Test object results in the creating of a new Test object. Which results in the the creating of a new Test object. Which results in the the creating of a new Test object. This will continue until a StackOverflowError is thrown by the JVM.