The following well-formed program is rejected by javac-ea:

package othello;

public class H extends I
{
    public static void main (final String[] args)
    {
        q.f();
    }
}

class I
{
    void f () { System.out.println("I.f()"); }
    private static I q;
}

class q
{
    static void f () { System.out.println("q.f()"); }
}

It complains that "q" is private, i.e. it is resolving the simple name "q"
in H.main() to the private static field of H's superclass, rather than to
the package-scope type q, even though private members are not inherited.

[from Roly]

william.maddox@Eng 1999-06-23