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From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: closures
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 13:08:11 +0100
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On 15.12.2014 01:37, Roedy Green wrote:
> On 12 Dec 2014 22:51:33 GMT, ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>
>>   Today, I wanted to show to the students that inner classes cannot
>>   modify fields of outer classes
>
> You may be thinking about methods of an anonymous class can only
> reference final local variables of the enclosing method.

And, Stefan, note that "this" is final in the method, but members of 
"this" are not, of course.  Much the same way as in this example:

public final class Demo {

   public int counter;

   public static void main(String[] args) {
     final Demo d = new Demo();
     System.out.println(d.counter); // prints 0

     new Runnable() {
       @Override
       public void run() {
         ++d.counter;
       }
     }.run();

     System.out.println(d.counter); // prints 1
   }

}

Kind regards

	robert

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