Re: inner class scope issues

Lew wrote:


Here's another semi-obscure case (not compiled, so forgive any typos)

    interface Persistent
    {
            Persistent read(InputStream strm);
            void write(OutputStream strm);
    }

    abstract class DocumentBase implements Persistent
    {
        protected void writeToFile(String fname) throws IOExcepti=

        {
            FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(fna=

            try
            {
                write(fos);
            }
            finally
            {
                fos.close();
            }
    }

Observe that DocumentBase has the abstract methods read and write just
as if it had explicitly declared them or inherited them from a
superclass. Obviously, it "inherited" them from the interface, but
that's not usually how we use that word.