[antlr-interest] site back up

[Gavin Lambert]

At 13:10 26/08/2008, Terence Parr wrote:
 >Back up...another case of HomePage.class reference in Java not
 >executing static initializer...i have to use new HomePage() 
dummy
 >load to get it to exec static {...}  Weird...i pushed .class 
files
 >compiled with 1.5 and it broke.  3 hours down the drain.
 >grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

I don't know how much Java and C# are alike in this respect, but 
in C# a class's static constructor isn't called until sometime 
near when the first reference to that class is made (eg. instance 
constructor call or static method call)...

(I say "sometime near" because the standard is a little vague.  It 
usually seems to work out that it's called when entering the 
method that makes the instance constructor or static method call, 
rather than at the actual call site.)