Re: nested class inheritance

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 7/14/12 5:36 AM, Guillaume Chatelet wrote:

class Fruit {
     class Seed {
     }
}

class Apple extends Fruit {
     class AppleSeed extends Fruit.Seed {
         Apple getOuter() {
             return Apple.this;
         }
     }
}

class Main {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
         final Apple apple = new Apple();
         final Apple.AppleSeed appleSeed = apple.new AppleSeed();
         assert (appleSeed instanceof Fruit.Seed);
         assert (apple == appleSeed.getOuter());
         assert (appleSeed.getOuter() instanceof Apple);
         assert (appleSeed.getOuter() instanceof Fruit);
     }
}

This is valid Java code actually and I agree with Gor I would have
expected it to work with D.

Guillaume

You may want to add the example to the bug report.

Thanks,

Andrei