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Anoop Nair
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Why cant the final and static modifiers be used with a constructor???
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Campbell Ritchie
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Welcome to JavaRanch 
That looks like a beginner's question.
A constructor is reconstructed every time you extend a class, so it has to be different for each class and final would be meaningless.
It creates an object, so calling it static would be a bit silly.
In that case, the designers of Java decided to prohibit calling constructors final or static. You only want modifiers when they actually do something.
Hope I haven't made it harder to understand.
CR
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Ilja Preuss
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Originally posted by naruto uzumaki:
Why cant the final and static modifiers be used with a constructor???
Well, why should it be allowed to do so?
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Mike Simmons
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And if they were allowed, what effect(s) would you expect them to have?
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