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Re: Strange "new" syntax
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy Fitzhardinge)
Thu May 4 12:35:27 1995
From: jeremy@sour.sw.oz.au (Jeremy Fitzhardinge)
Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 16:11:17 +1000 (EST)
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
> It creates a new instance of the class named by the string argument.
> It can be any expression resulting in a string as long as it
> results in a valid public class name. The return type is Object.
What does it do about calling a constructor? Does it call the
default/no-arg constructor? I noticed where it's used there's
code like
i = (FormItem) new("browser.forms.text");
// ...
i.initialize(f, form, this);
Does this mean a class has to be written with this kind of use in
mind?
J
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