Re: regarding a doubt in interfaces
Ian Shef wrote:
You may want to look at
<http://www.javaspecialists.eu/archive/Issue006.html>
"Implementation code inside interfaces" by Dr. Heinz M. Kabutz
This article shows an anonymous inner class defined within an
interface. I wouldn't have believed it possible if I hadn't seen
it. Here is a shorter but less useful version of the same idea:
public interface InterfaceContainingClass {
Runnable runnable = new Runnable() {
public void run() {}
} ;
}
Lew wrote:
I wonder what the implication is of
A member type declaration in an interface is implicitly static and
public.
<http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/interfaces.html#9.5>
Piotr Kobzda wrote:
This applies to the cases like the following:
interface I {
class NC {}
interface NI {}
}
where both NC class, and NI interface are implicitly static and public
member types of the interface I.
Lew wrote:
Does that mean that the anonymous Runnable above is actually static
and public?
Piotr Kobzda wrote:
No. The anonymous classes are not a member types.
Well, of course the member 'runnable' is static.
Every field declaration in the body of an interface is implicitly public, static, and final.
- JLS 3.
What confused me is
Inner classes include local (?14.3), anonymous (?15.9.5) and non-static member classes (?8.5).
So if the anonymous class is an inner class, it ought to be able to refer to
its enclosing instance. The enclosing instance for a static member must be
the class itself, since there is no outer instance.
I guess the "outer 'this'" would be hard to use here. I'm not sure what it
would refer to.
--
Lew
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