Qualified class instance creation expressions must not be qualified by a
null reference. It appears that the current release (1.3) is not performing the
necessary check. This check is performed by the 1.2 compiler.

Compile and run the following program:

class nullQualifiedNew {

  class Nested {

    int j;
    Nested(int i){ j = i;}
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) {

    nullQualifiedNew e = null;
    e.new Nested(6);
  }
}

gilad.bracha@eng 2000-02-01