Instantiating a class within itself ?!

Hi guys,I just started playing around with Java, trying to understand the core base of this language.
I have created a simple class and just-for-try I instantiated this class from inside itself.
public class PrivAndPublic{
PrivAndPublic o = new PrivAndPublic();
}//end of class
It doesn't give me any compiling error!
Doesn't it sound strange?!
I cannot understand how is it possible and it really seems a bug to me.
Thanks for any help!

What Darcia wrote make me suppose that a class is totally created with the first line of a java file (i.e. public class PrivAndPublic{ )and initialized by the constructor (which, if omitted, comes by default with no arguments)...after all this, the class can be instantiated many times I want from inside the class itself.
(I was thinking the class needed to reach the matching close curly brace to be possible to instantiate it)
But as phyzome said I have to be careful to do not make the object call the method which I put the object in, otherwise I will cause an infinite loop...as I did try ;)
Thanx guys, see you.

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What Darcia wrote make me suppose that a class is totally created with the first line of a java file (i.e. public class PrivAndPublic{ )and initialized by the constructor (which, if omitted, comes by default with no arguments)...after all this, the class can be instantiated many times I want from inside the class itself.
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