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what is significance of final AB this$0;

 
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using the javap tool, i got the following, but i dont understand the purpose of adding these statement by compiler. please explain the usefulness of added code by compiler.
Compiled from "AB.java"

what is significance of final AB this$0;

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means reference to an instance of enclosing class AB. This reference is required to access fields amd methods of AB from within nested class B.
 
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You know that an inner class can access member variables and methods in the enclosing object, right? Well, this is how the compiler makes that possible. It passes a reference to the enclosing object into the inner class, via a constructor that it generates.

If you modified your original code to call a method in the enclosing object, you'll find that in the decompiled version the call is prefixed with this this$0 reference.
 
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