Right.  There are classes which run in Java, but jlinker complains about.
That's my point.  My original example HAD a constructor.  But jlinker gave
me an error anyway.


Patrick Beeson
<cs.utexas.edu at pbeeson>
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On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Jeff Dalton wrote:

> > This information can be found in any Java book introducing the
> > language Java ...
>
> Actually, I don't think it's all that obvious why the example didn't
> work, because, for instance, the following does work if I just compile
> and run it using Java:
>
> class Test2 {
>
>     static class HelloWorld {
> 	HelloWorld (String str) {
> 	    System.out.println(str);
> 	}
>     }
>
>     public static void main(String[] argv) {
> 	new HelloWorld("apple");
>     }
>
> }
>
> -- Jeff
>