class-constructors

Consider the following example (I am using Delphi XE): program Test; {$APPTYPE CONSOLE} type TTestClass<T> = class private class constructor CreateClass(); public constructor Create(); end; class constructor TTestClass<T>.CreateClass(); begin // class constructor is not called. this line never gets executed! Writeln('class created'); end; constructor TTestClass<T>.Create(); begin // this line, of course, is printed Writeln('instance created'); end; var test: TTestClass<Integer>; begin test := TTestClass<Integer>.Create(); test.Free(); end. The class constructur is never called and hence the

This isn't valid code: public class MyClass { private static boolean yesNo = false; static { if (yesNo) { System.out.println("Yes"); return; // The return statement is the problem } System.exit(0); } } This is a stupid example, but in a static class constructor we can't return; . Why? Are there good reasons for this? Does someone know something more about this? So the reason why I should do return is to end constructing there. Thanks I think the reason is that initializers are carried together with field initializations (and with constructors, in the case of instance initializers). In other