Yeah, this is very surprising to me. I simply didn't know that java worked that way and I've been programming in java for many years. I assumed that the memor

Yeah, this is very surprising to me. I simply didn't know that java worked that way and I've been programming in java for many years. I assumed that the memory that "currentPos" would eventually be bound to was fully initialized before the assignment operator remapped "currentPos" to the new value. I also assumed that binding a variable name to a new value is atomic across all threads.