setSeed() should throw an exception

[cowwoc]

Following up on your post at http://blog.uncommons.org/2012/11/22/uncommons-maths-1-2-3/ you can solve the problem by doing the following:

1. Add field private AtomicBoolean inConstructor = true.
2. When setSeed() is invoked, it only throws an exception if inConstructor is false.
3. At the end of the subclass constructor, set inConstructor to false.

Problem solved :)

[dwdyer]

Yes, that looks like a workable solution. Thanks.

[cowwoc]

You're welcome. Slight correction on the field definition, it should be:

private final AtomicBoolean inConstructor = new AtomicBoolean(true)