JLS 13.4.11 (Method and Constructor Declarations) together with the documentation for Class.newInstance() imply that you can instatiate an inner class this way. But of course you can't, because of the additional parameter supplied by the compiler. This needs to be documented somewhere.

[And if I hear one more time that this belongs in the "Java compiler specification" I'll just have to write one. So don't make me do it. ;-)]

neal.gafter@Eng 2001-01-05