Name: bk70084 Date: 07/20/98


Try running the following code. The bang() function
in bar2 will cause a NullPointerException, even though the
access is completely correct. I would guess it has something to
do with the subclassing from bar1, which is not an inner class


class bar1 {
    bar1() {
        bang();
    }

    void bang() {
    }
}

class foo {
    String i = "hi";

    class bar2 extends bar1 {
bar2() {
super();
}

void bang() {
            System.out.println("outer instance is "+foo.this); // will print null
System.out.println("i is "+i); // will throw NullPointerException
}
    }

    foo() {
new bar2();
    }

    public static void main(String argv[]) {
        new foo();
    }
}
(Review ID: 29780)
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