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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.