Anonymous Class (interface & extends)

[faisal usmani]

Hi ,

Can an anonymous class be declared as implementing an interface and
extending a class ?


Thanx in advance

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

No. If you need to do both, then you'll need to use a named class (which could still be an inner class, just not an anonymous one.)

[faisal usmani]

Thanx Ernest

But can you give me a little detail why is it not possible ?



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[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Just because the language specification provides no way to do it. I suppose the logic was that if you need to do anything that complicated, then it's worth creating a class with a name. Anonymous classes are supposed to be tiny one-liners -- anything larger belongs in a named class.