InnerClass - doubt in calling inner class methods

[Ags Karan]

Hi all ,

I have a class with same name defined in various places such as inner class and method local class . Please see the code below.

public class OuterClass{

	public static void main(String args[]) {
		new OuterClass().test();

	}

	void test() {
		class A {      // Method local inner class

			void m() {
				System.out.println("Method local inner class declared last");
			}
		}

		new OuterClass().new A().m(); // it calls the regular inner class - why ? 
		new A().m();// this calls the method local inner class

	}

	class A {       // Regular Inner class

		void m() {
			System.out.println("Regular Inner class");
		}
	}

}

new OuterClass().new A().m();
I dont understand why is the above line calls the regular inner class rather than the method local .
I just recreated the outer class instance just to check how is that happening , but to my surprise it calls the regular inner class.
Can anybody please explain why ?

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

new OuterClass().new A().m(); 

This code is saying to create a new instance of OuterClass. Then on the new class, create an inner class called A. The new instance of OuterClass that this line has created is brand new. It's not in the middle of a method called test() that happens to have a method local class with the same name.