Local Inner Class

[UPENDRA KANE]

Hi,
While I was trying to check different possibilities related to Inner Classes, I tried this code & it can be compiled with S.O.P. Statement inside the inner class? Compiler gives error message as 'identifier expected'??
I am not able to decide the reasoning behind it? Please help...

 static void methoda (){
   int m1=0;
   final int m2=0;
   class Local{
      int Local1=0;
//    System.out.println(m2 );  -- Does not compile with this statement??? when commented , everything is OK but when comments are removed, then even the next s.o.p. statement is also marked as error?
   }   
   System.out.println(i2 );
 }

[UPENDRA KANE]

Correction. What I wanted to write was, This code is NOT getting compiled.

[lakshmi nair]

I have modified your code slightly.See if this is what you meant to do...
You have not declared the variable i2 in your last SOP statement, which was giving you the error.

class InnerTest {
static void methoda (){   
int m1=3;   
final int m2=5;   
class Local{      
int Local1=0;
void innerMethod() {
System.out.println("innermethod "+m2);
}
}      
Local l = new Local();
l.innerMethod();
System.out.println("methoda " +m2 ); 
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
InnerTest.methoda();
}
}

Thanx
Lakshmi
[This message has been edited by lakshmi nair (edited October 27, 2000).]

[Mary Anitha]

The error must be because the System.out.println(m2 );
was directly under the class instead of being in a method.
[This message has been edited by Mary Anitha (edited October 27, 2000).]

[suresh kumar adimulam]

Put the curly braces for System.out.println() in the inner class . It will compile .
/Suresh/

[UPENDRA KANE]

Lakshmi,
This code is actually a part of a bigger code. I had declared i2 in the Package Level Class. Thanks anyway...
Mary & Suresh, Thanks for pointing out the obvious mistake.
I guess, after a while I suffer from attacks of Code Blindness!