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.
- Paul Philion > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 7:21 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PATCH] Problem with the new JavaDoc stuff and Jikes > > I *believe* it is a bug in Javac - one of those non-compliancies it > exhibits ;P. Inner classes are meant to not shadow all > variables in the > context it is created - but they can only access final versions IIRC
