I am getting a very strange error with javac of blackdown 1.2.2RC4 (I
haven't tested with the FCS yet), that does not occur with jikes or the
javac that comes with ibm's jdk 1.3.
The problem is illustrated by the following:
file a.java:
interface a {
interface b {
public static final String test = "test";
}
}
file c.java:
public class c implements a {
public static void main( String[] args ) {
System.out.println( b.test );
}
}
If you try to compile those files with jikes or ibm's javac, everything
works smoothly.
However, if your do so with blackdown's 1.2.2RC4, the following error
occurs:
[dimitris@gauss bugs]$ javac a.java c.java
c.java:4: Undefined variable or class name: b
System.out.println( b.test );
^
1 error
Obviously, this is not the correct behavior, since b is a static
sub-interface of a, of which c is an instance. So b should a type
directly accessible to c.
Hence, I believe that the compilation should not produce any problems
(this is the behavior of jikes and ibm's javac).
And, to strengthen this argument, if I change b.test to a.b.test the
program compiles normally.
Any comments?
-- dimitris
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