Order of variable initialization

"Hello, Amigo! Today, Bilaabo will talk about the order in which variables are initialized."

Imagine you're looking at some code. What values do the variables get?

class Cat
{
 public int a = 5;
 public int b = a + 1;
 public int c = a * b;
}

class Cat
{
 public int a = getSum();
 public int b = getSum() - a;
 public int c = getSum() - a - b;

 public int getSum()
 {
  return a + b + c;
 }
}

"Is that really allowed?"

"Of course. The order in which a class's member methods and fields are declared is not important."

A class is loaded from top to bottom, so it's important that a field only accesses other fields that have already been loaded. In the example, b can access a, but it doesn't know anything about c.

"And what will happen?"

"When variables are created, they get default values."

class Cat
{
 public int a = 5;
 public int b = a + 1;
 public int c = a * b;
}

class Cat
{
 public int a = 0;
 public int b = 0;
 public int c = 0;

 public Cat() { super();

 a = 5;
 b = a + 1; //5+1 = 6
 c = a * b; //5*6 = 30
 }
}

class Cat
{
 public int a = getSum();
 public int b = getSum() - a;
 public int c = getSum() - a - b;

 public getSum()
 {
  return a + b + c;
 }
}

class Cat
{
 public int a = 0;
 public int b = 0;
 public int c = 0;

 public Cat() { super();

  a = getSum(); //(a+b+c)=0
  b = getSum() - a; //(a+b+c)-a=b=0
  c = getSum() - a - b; //(a+b+c)-a-b=c=0
 }

 public getSum()
 {
  return a + b + c;
 }
}

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