Description Bogdan Stanescu 2004-03-04 19:07:44 EST

If in the advanced Java compiler options I select to receive warnings 
for "Local variable hides another field or variable", I get warnings when I 
make a static inner class that has a field with the same name as the enclosing 
class. But since the inner class is static, it doesn't make sense to say its 
field "hides" the field from the enclosing class. Example:

public class FieldHideExample
{
    String str;

    public static class Inner
    {
        String str; // compiler warning here

        Inner()
        {
            // but there is no hiding here, since Inner is a static class
            str = "test";
        }
    }
}