If you have to worry about the efficiency of such a few innocent
statements, then something is very wrong in your application.

/Thomas

You have to declare them anyway so adding a "=0;" at the end shouldn't
be a big deal. You can use textpad and run a macro or any other macro
tool to do it.

If you are lazy then put them in a array and loop through it and
initialize them to zero. but why create unnecessary datastructures?

check out www.textpad.com and the macros...its free

Terry,
You might make these members in another object. Java will implicitly
initialize booleans to false; bytes, shorts, and ints to 0; and floats
and doubles to 0.0.

In the following example, you have to instantiate a new InitVals object
(that is, InitVals iv = new Initvals()) and then refer to the members
by the object (for example, iv.client_total).

Don't worry too much about the efficiency of initialization. Someone
has to do, either you or Java at runtime. You might consider your
initialization to be akin to documentation, helping a future reader to
know what you're doing.

public class InitVals {
   int is_client_system;
   int client_total;
   int is_server_system;
   int server_total;
   int is_other_system;
   int other_total;
   int total_hardware;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        InitVals iv = new InitVals();
        System.out.println("is_client_system: " + iv.is_client_system);
        iv.client_total++;
        System.out.println("incremented client_total: " + iv.client_total);
    }
}

If they are member variables then Java will initialize them
automatically with 0.

On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 01:51:44 -0800, terry433iid wrote:

There doesn't seem to be a lot of point, just to same a little effort.
You could use something like
is_client_system = (client_total = 0);
to set two, using the value returned from the inner assignment for the
outer one, but it all becomes more obscure.

Tony