Description Christian Plesner Hansen 2005-01-29 13:30:29 EST

When declaring an enumeration within a class, the type parameters of the class
are inherited.  For instance here:

public class SuperClass<Type> {
    static enum Inner { ELM }
    Inner getInner() { return null; }
}

public class SubClass extends SuperClass<String> {
    public Inner getInner() {
        return Inner.ELM;
    }
}

This causes an error because the type of ELM is given type
SuperClass<Type>.Inner but and the return type in the subclass is taken to be
SuperClass<String>.Inner.  That doesn't seem right.  Oddly enough, this is not a
problem when the classes are in the same file.