anonymous class in methods

[Arun Kumarr]

what do you call a anonymous class defined inside a method???

For eg; What do I call the class inside mtd() in class A ???



class B{
public void mtdb(){
System.out.println("hey1");

}

}

public class A{


public static void main(String sinful[]){

A a= new A();
B b = new B();

a.mtd();
b.mtdb();
}

void mtd(){

B b = new B(){

public void mtdb(){
System.out.println("hey");
}

};

b.mtdb();

}

[Ilja Preuss]

I don't know a more specific term than "anonymous inner class"...

[Arun Kumarr]

can we call it anonymous local class.

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Originally posted by Arun Kumarr:
can we call it anonymous local class.

You could; you could also call it "Harold", if you wanted. But officially, it's an anonymous inner class, and that's what everyone calls it.

There is no such thing as a "non-local anonymous class", right? So the "local" would be redundant.

[Arun Kumarr]

when I said "local" I meant "method-local" anonymous inner class.

[Ilja Preuss]

Well, as they don't work differently from "non-method-local" ones, why would you want to give them a special name?

[Mr. C Lamont Gilbert]

Plus its not method local as it can be accessed as if it were class local, i.e. anonymous inner class.

correct me if I am wrong here.