Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 25473 invoked from network); 31 Aug 2000 02:13:39 -0000 Received: from latcs2.cs.latrobe.edu.au (root@131.172.42.22) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 31 Aug 2000 02:13:39 -0000 Received: from localhost (pjdonald@localhost) by latcs2.cs.latrobe.EDU.AU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA05599 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:12:58 +1100 From: donaldp@mad.scientist.com X-Authentication-Warning: latcs2.cs.latrobe.EDU.AU: pjdonald owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:12:58 +1100 (EST) X-Sender: pjdonald@latcs2.cs.latrobe.EDU.AU Reply-To: donaldp@mad.scientist.com To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Subject: RE: [PATCH] Problem with the new JavaDoc stuff and Jikes In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N 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.