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  Re: closures Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-12-12 18:05 -0500
    Re: closures Brixomatic <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2014-12-13 08:53 +0100

#30555 — Re: closures

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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#30560

In article <m6fsbl$i23$1@dont-email.me>, Eric Sosman (esosman@comcast-
dot-net.invalid) says...
> 
> 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?"

Or did you mean a static inner classe trying to modify a non static 
field of the outer class?

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-Wanja-


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