Re: A small exercise
On 4/28/2013 6:34 AM, Chris Uppal wrote:
Arne Vajh?j wrote:
On 4/27/2013 4:25 AM, lipska the kat wrote:
This *implies* to me that this.b and Main.this.b are not *logically
equivalent*, this is what I said, nothing to do with whether
[obnoxious stuff elided]
Nope.
The JVM agrees.
Try:
System.out.println(this==Main.this);
But that proves nothing, doesn't even indicate anything.
It shows that it is the same object.
It's commonplace for
two independent identifiers to refer to the same object. And those two
different forms of reference may have different rules (consider using protected
access via "this" verses an independent reference to the same object).
Nothing unusual in that a.b and c.d.f.g.h.j refers to same object.
And if the question is about accessibility then obviously the
path to the object is relevant.
But should the path used for access be relevant for whether something
in the object is definite assigned or definite unassigned?
I'm guessing (and I admit that I can find no other supporting evidence) that
this is a bug in the compiler where code that is written on the assumption that
"C" above must be a strictly enclosing class. In those case the (equivalent)
code would obviously be incorrect (and that goes for the blank-final example
too). In particular I suspect that its something going squiffy in the
contorted logic that allows nested classes to refer to private fields of the
[not actually] "enclosing" class at runtime: that horrible stuff that is added
to circumvent the JVMs own checking.
Yes.
But I may as well admit that one piece of evidence against my guess is that
both javac and Eclipse "fail" in the same way.
Yes.
Arne
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