206: Mainline

Java allows you to initialize instance variables in the same way that you initialize local variables and class variables. For example, you could, pessimistically, arrange for the instance variables in every Movie instance to have an initial value of 3:

public class Movie { 
 public int script = 3, acting = 3, direction = 3; 
 public int rating () { 
  return script + acting + direction; 
 } 
} 

If you have not initialized an instance variable, that variable will have the default value prescribed for its type. The default value of a variable with arithmetic type is 0.