why private member variable of inner class can't be accessed by its outer class but mehod can be?

[Divyya Joshi]

The following code is related to regular inner class and the moment i try to access private member variable of inner class compiler complains error but Not when private member is acessed
Here's the code

class MyOuter
{
private int x=7;

class MyInner
{
private x=10;
private void seeOuter()
{
System.out.println("Outer z is"+x);
System.out.println("Inner Class ref is"+this);
System.out.println("Outer class ref is"+MyOuter.this);
}
}

public static void main(String s[])
{
MyOuter.MyInner my=new MyOuter().new MyInner();
my.seeOuter(); // COMPILES FINE
my.x=11; // ERROR
}
}

Anyone kindly explain this absurd behaviour .

[Piyush Joshi]

Divyya Joshi wrote:

private x=10;

what is the type of x here??

I think you forgot to write int here:

private int x = 10;

[Divyya Joshi]

Yeah Thanks Piyush..