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Subject: Re: Overwriting inner classes?
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 10:41:25 -0700
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On 5/29/2013 9:00 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Supersedes: <overwriting-20130530031632@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>
> [I->It]
>
>    class A { static class B { void f(){} }}
>    class C extends A {}
>
>    It never occured to me before, but, yes:
>    Can C somehow »overwrite« f?
>


What Barb said.  C cannot even overload f.  They are simply completely 
disjoint.

This would be different:

class D extends B {}

But then obviously the normal rules apply.  This is one thing I like 
about Java over C++:  the polymorphism rules are fairly simple and easy 
to remember.  C++ is a lot more baroque;  I find it quite difficult 
actually.