Description Markus Keller 2006-01-04 06:10:47 EST

From the news:
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In the following example, the eclipse compiler complains Class1.this
in the assignment statement as being incorrect.  The actual error message
is "Type mismatch: cannot convert from Class1<V,R> to
Class1<V,R>".  I think this is a valid qualified expression. Any clue what
may be wrong?

public class Class1<V, R> {
	
	private class InnerClass1 {
		void foo() {
			Class1<V, R> c = Class1.this;
		}
	}
}
-- Venkatesh Prasad Ranganath, Dept. Computing and Information Science, Kansas State University, US. web: http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~rvprasa
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The problem seems to be that Class1.this has a generic type binding instead of a parameterized one. The wrong compile error also appears without the inner type:
class Class1<V, R> {
    void m() {
        Class1<V, R> c2 = this; // correct: isParameterizedType
        Class1<V, R> c3 = Class1.this; //wrong compile error: isGenericType
    }
}