Enthuware

The field has a value as soon as the parent constructor finishes, no?

Please read the post above.

I did read that. You wrote:

That is why, the field has a value even before the constructor is finished.

My point is that it has a value before "before the end of the constructor;" it has a value after the first line of the constructor, or actually, if you don't explicitly call super(), then it has a value ON the first line of the constructor.

Still not sure what yout point is. Already mentioned the following in previous post:

You should remember that all instance fields get their default values first, even before the constructor runs. These default values are 0 for numeric types, false for boolean, and null for reference types.

Not sure what is the confusion. It doesn't matter where there is a call to super construtor or not. The fields always have a well definedand known value.