Anonymous class concept

[Farhan Tariq]

What modifiers we can use with anonymous classes:
A. public
B. private
C. protected
D. abstract
I don't know about anonymous classes much please help me.
Regards
Farhan

[Manfred Leonhardt]

Hi Farhan,
I would say that an anonymous class can be any of the first three:
A, B, or C
The last one is incorrect because abstract means that a subclass will provide some implementation and since we are dealing with anonymous classes (no names) it is impossible to subclass them!
Regards,
Manfred.

[Jon Coltman]

Hello!
Can you imagine a reason why you would want to change the access modifier on an anonymous class from the default? You will only be using it once and you wont know it's name (poor thing).

Interesting question though!

[Thomas Paul]

None. An anonymous class is created inside a method so it only has method scope. And where would you put the class modifier?

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[Farhan Tariq]

Hi guys!
I agree with Jon and Thomas. They provide good reason. I have another doubt about this type that whether or not the impact of modifiers(coderanch, protected, private) of enclosing method, occurs on the anonymous class. e.g if we have a method "private void amethod(){}" and we have an anonymous classin it , so is there any impact of the private modifier of the enclosing method, means when we change that modifier to public or protected.
Regards
Farhan

[anand raman]

Originally posted by Farhan Tariq:
Hi guys!
I agree with Jon and Thomas. They provide good reason. I have another doubt about this type that whether or not the impact of modifiers(coderanch, protected, private) of enclosing method, occurs on the anonymous class. e.g if we have a method "private void amethod(){}" and we have an anonymous classin it , so is there any impact of the private modifier of the enclosing method, means when we change that modifier to public or protected.
Regards
Farhan

well as anonymous classes have only method scope they are restricted to the method. However like any other object if u pass this reference out then it can be accessed from any other place.
Hope this helps
Anand

[Adeeshwar Singhal]

As per Khalid Mughall Inner classes and ofcourse Anonymous classes can not have any accessibility modifier. I have also tested this fact.
Hope this helps...
Adeeshwar
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