On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Paul Philion wrote: > That would imply that the Jikes version is in error, wouldn't it? As > the local variable "dir" was not final, it is not accessible to the > inner class (where the "dir" parameter is used) and therefore should > not result in a conflict.
It can not be used - but it is still in namespace and thus you can't shadow it. One of the reasons I dislike Inner Classes is all the small semantic intricacies involved.
