, As per the above comments, I closed this ticket.

Thanks for the explanations and inputs.

I've done tests with the above your examples

For the first example, ACF2021 increases the instanceCount to 1.
Again, For the second example, ACF2021 increases the instanceCount to 1.
Also, For the third example, ACF2021 throws the error s... happens! for the teststa::instanceCount.

I agreed with your point.

this is a bug in ACF in my opinion.

a component has 3 constructors, one static and 2 instance constructors.

the static constructor is within static{} , then you have the body constructor that is all code directly within component {} and last the is the function init(){}

The 2 instance constructors are only execute when you create an instance, so i do not expect “dotNotation“ do be loaded.

You could argue that for example in java this get loaded

You could argue that Lucee should detect the static defintions and read them and only them anyway when init the static context.

But i’m completely against this, because this is not intuitive and what if i wanna define that static variable when the instance is created.

Take this code as an example

in ACF then i can do the following?

What does ACF do in this situations?

I have a guess why ACF acts as it does. I think they create an instance even you only do teststa::getStaticBystatic() simply becaue this is the easiest way to a static context. I know because we did it also in the alpha version of this feature and this had exactly this ugly effects.

please execute the following code in ACF

Does ACF throw the error? it should not.

Is the instanceCount 0 or 1? Should be 0 because no instance got created.

I added a testcase to this ticket
Pull Request: