Though it can apply to intrinsic types, one must use the "on first use" idiom for these in order to avoid the static initialization order fiasco. In Cold Fusion, the 'init' method can be invoked to create pseudo-versions of these.  In Java, they cannot be directly invoked and the keyword 'new' must be used, and in C++, the double-colon indicates this is being used. Ambiguity errors are common in overloaded versions of these and since it never has an explicit return type it is different from an instance method. In many instances if one is not explicitly defined for a class a parameterless defau
Though it can apply to intrinsic types, one must use the "on first use" idiom for these in order to avoid the static initialization order fiasco. In Cold Fusion, the 'init' method can be invoked to create pseudo-versions of these.  In Java, they cannot be directly invoked and the keyword 'new' must be used, and in C++, the double-colon indicates this is being used. Ambiguity errors are common in overloaded versions of these and since it never has an explicit return type it is different from an instance method. In many instances if one is not explicitly defined for a class a parameterless default one is generated by the compiler. For 10 points, name this object-oriented program implement a member function with the same name as the class used to create and initialize objects of that class type.
Though it can apply to intrinsic types, one must use the "on first use" idiom for these in order to avoid the static initialization order fiasco.
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