Reg. Inner classes

[Angela Narain]

Consider the three statements below :
( only two are true )
1. Member variables of the Outer instance are always accessible to inner instance
regardless of the accessibility modifiers.
2. Member variables of the outer instance can never be referred to using only the variable name
within the inner instance
3. More than one inner instance can be associated with the same outer instance .

[Sunetra Saha]

I think it will be 1 & 3. 2 is false as you can refer the member variables of the outer instance by just their names as long as the name does not conflict with any local variable name or member variable name of the inner class.

[Angela Narain]

Yes, you are right.
I just tried out naming a member variable of the inner clas
with the same name as the outer class.
Code compiles fine.

public class Q28fd {
int x = 1;
class Inner{
int x=3;
public void m() { System.out.println(" x = "+ x ) ; }

}
public static void main(String args[]) {
Q28fd.Inner i = new Q28fd().new Inner();
i.m();
}
}

Output : x = 3