My question is simple. Is a static local variable's initialization thread safe? Acording to Stroustrup: quote: (A Static Local Variable) will be initialized only the first time the thread of ...

Ever wonder why Java's const keyword is unimplemented? More specifically, why do we mark global constants in Java with both the static and final keywords? Why are Java constants static and final? The ...

Java SE 10 (March 2018) introduced type inference for local variables. Java Language Architect Brian Goetz explains the feature.

Object Pascal has per-unit initialization and finalization (units being like Java packages), but not per-class initialization. You can easily initialize all of the class variables (static ...

The "Understanding Java threads" series concludes by uncovering some of the loose ends of threading: thread groups, volatility, thread-local variables, timers, and thread death.