Change in javac handling of anonymous/local classes (original) (raw)

Maurizio Cimadamore maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com
Wed Feb 27 13:40:13 PST 2013

On 27/02/13 21:16, Alex Buckley wrote:

- I suspect javac 1.6 and 1.7 choose TT.f3(String) because of a different belief about shadowing. Maurizio, please comment on what's visible at 'f3(0);'. Javac implements the so called comb-lookup [1] - supertypes are looked up before enclosing types. The problem with f1 is a glitch that has been fixed in JDK 8.

Afaik the comb rule is also supported in Eclipse. I don't think there's any compiler out there that think the anonymous class has two f3 members.

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