Re: inner class and static

<Quote from TIJ3 chapter 8>
If you're defining an anonymous inner class and want to use an object
that's defined outside the anonymous inner class, the compiler
requires that the argument reference be final, like the argument to
dest( ). If you forget, you'll get a compile-time error message.
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</Quote>

The txt mentioned in the original post is an object that's defined
outside the anonymous inner class, but still the compiler didn't
complain, why?



Mike Schilling wrote:
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I was told that the variable accessed inside a anonymous inner class
needs to be static.

An inner class (whether anonymous or not) may access the instance
variables of the outer class and it can access the local variables of the
method that instantiates it, provided they are final.


Though a *static* inner class can only access static field of its enclosing
class (and can only call static methods of that class); pehshps that's what
the OP was thinking of.

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