On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Jonathan Mitchem <jmitc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Java has a lack of this top-down processing, and it sometimes causes >> problems because the order in which static initializers will execute >> is not generally predictable. > > If you're programming with a side-effect free functional approach, > that shouldn't be a problem right?
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