Creating Own Object in Method

[Debojit Sinha]

Hi, people,
Why is it legal to create object of own class from a method?
Thank You.

[Yogesh Gnanapraksam]

I don't understand your question.
Do you mean to say that it should not be allowed ?

[pankaj vijay]

Give me a reason why should be it illegal ???

[Jesper de Jong]

Do you mean something like this:

public class JavaRanch {
	public JavaRanch method() {
		return new JavaRanch();
	}
}

There's nothing wrong with creating any kind of object in a method, including an object of the class that the method is in. Why do you think it's strange that this is legal?

[Debojit Sinha]

Er, I think I phrased the question incorrectly, sorry.
My point was that since classes are created at compnile time, and, if a constructor to itself is called within it, should not here be an error? Since, after all, the class to be constructed is not in existence yet. In all probability I am wrong, and look forward to your clarification. Thank You.

[Rob Spoor]

You mean something like this:

public Test()
{
    Test other = new Test();
}

That will cause a StackOverflowError yes.

[Debojit Sinha]

Sorry I took so long to answer, project lead was being a nazi, but thanks for the help.