I am getting output as 0 but it must be 5 as i think

[Rakesh Bagaria]

//class with private constructor

class A
{
static int count =0;

//constructor
private A()
{
count=count+1;
}


//count function for object created
static void countfun(int n)
{

A ob[]=new A[n];
System.out.println("Number of Object created is "+count);

}
}


//main class

class PrivCons
{
public static void main(String args[])
{

A.countfun(5);


}
}

[Lester Burnham]

I don't see any instances of class A being created. The only thing that's being created is an array that can hold instances of class A; that does not cause those object to be created, though.

[Shanky Sohar]

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[Rob Spoor]

Lester is right. If you create an array of objects, each element will remain null until explicitly set a value. Unless you use {} to set the values immediately that is:

A[] obj = {new A(), new A(), new A()}; // obj.length == 3
obj = new A[] {new A(), new A(), new A(), new A(), new A()}; // obj.length == 5

[Vishal Kashyap]

First of all,
You have not created any instance of class A yet is the main reason and after all, you have made your default constructor as Private so it cant be accessible is different class that's why your code for count increment in the private default constructor would not work at all. Each and every time after creating your instance in this code will get count to be Zero as a result.