(Go ahead, test it yourself with a debugger.) Why? Because the initializer expressions happen in the order the variables are declared in the class -- not the order the initializer expressions appear ...

The NEW_VALUE directive allows you to store data retrieved from an Oracle table as a variable inside the SQL*Plus script. Written by Donald Burleson, Contributor June 18, 2002 at 6:01 p.m. PT ...

That changes what we mean by "constant." When a variable is declared as a constant, it doesn't mean that the object it's holding is immutable. You can, for example, still change values in the ...