Name: sgC58550 Date: 03/24/97


I am in the process of updating my book "Java Reference Manual"
and I have encountered a language feature that does not work as
advertised. I would appreciate a quick response from someone
at Sun telling me if
1. the problem is the documentation
2. the problem is the compiler
3. the problem is that I have misunderstood the documentation

In the inner classes documentation it says
> A corresponding qualification of super allows a subclass
> constructor to specify an enclosing instance for a superclass
> which is an inner:
>
> ExplicitConstructorInvocation: ...
> Primary . super ( ArgumentListOpt ) ;

To test that out I wrote this code
  public class X {
      class A {
          class B {
              (new A()).super();
          }
      }
  }
When I tried to compile that code, I got
> X.java:4: Type expected.
> (new A()).super();
> ^
> 1 error


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