Inner classes question

[Ary Manzana]

Ivan Senji wrote:
> Steve Horne wrote:
>> On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 13:11:47 +0200, Ivan Senji
>> <ivan.senji_REMOVE_ at _THIS__gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I2 doesn't have a base class, so that wouldn't work.
>>
>> Yeah, I'm confusing myself.
>>
>> The problem, I suspect, is putting 'new' in an initialiser. If it was
>> in a (dynamic) method, 
> 
> Sorry (a bug in my example, but it doesn't change anything)
> 
> class O
> {
>   class I1
>   {
>   }
>   class I2
>   {
>     this()
>     {
>       I1 a = new I1; //line 10 -> same error
>     }
>   }
> }
> 
>> the standard route to the outer-class instance
>> would apply so it should just work, unless I'm missing something.
> 
> That is what I would expect too but it doesn't happen (so we are both 
> missing something)
> 
>

In Java it's done this way:

class O
{
   class I1
   {
   }
   class I2
   {
     this()
     {
       I1 a = O.this.new I1;
     }
   }
}

"O.this" says "Give me the reference of O that contains me" and from 
that point you say "new I1", that belongs to O. The syntax is a bit (a 
lot?) strange, though...

However, if there is no ambiguity in "new I1", then writing "O.this" is 
not necessary. So the example you sent works perfectly in Java, and I 
think it should work the same way in D.

Ary