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On 12/12/2014 5:51 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>    flabbergasted
>
>    Today, I wanted to show to the students that inner classes cannot
>    modify fields of outer classes. [...]

     There's no such prohibition, and I don't think there ever has been.
Perhaps you're confusing "fields of outer classes" with "local variables
of enclosing methods?"

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