[Rails-devel] Token.init() and SpecialProperty.init()

[brett l. <bre...@gm...>]

I'm positive I'm missing something here.

In both Token and SpecialProperty, we're defining some static class
variables, such as:

private static int index = 0;

Then, in the init() method, we're re-defaulting it to the same value
we've already declared, such as:

    // initialize the special properties static variables
    public static void init() {
        tokenMap = new HashMap<String, TokenI>();
        index = 0;
        log.debug("Init token static variables");
    }


Why is this necessary? Is the defined default value insufficient in
some way that isn't immediately obvious?

---Brett.