On Friday 09 November 2007, Glen Mazza wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 09.11.2007, 07:48 +0000 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> >      private int limit = 100 * 1024;
> > +    private boolean enabled;
>
> While it may be that "enabled" will be false by default, it is usually
> better for readability to initialize that explicitly.  The reader is
> never sure if "false" was the coder's intent, or that they simply
> forgot to initialize this variable.

The PMD rules will prevent that.  Initializing values to the default 
values just wastes processor time at construction time.


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