D - inner classes

Phill (9/9) Apr 03 2004 Is this URL not up to date?

Matthias Becker (2/6) Apr 04 2004 It does? I didn't know about it. Thanks for telling me. Or do you mix it...

Phill (25/33) Apr 04 2004 The difference seems to be a bit blurred to me,

Phill (10/10) Apr 04 2004 But then again:

Ivan Senji (7/12) Apr 04 2004 within

Ant (8/23) Apr 04 2004 I don't know why we don't have them.

Ivan Senji (6/29) Apr 04 2004 instance

Ant (32/63) Apr 04 2004 We agree. I do that with nested classes,

Manfred Nowak (5/6) Apr 04 2004 [...]

Ant (3/12) Apr 04 2004 you only have one enclosing instance for all the inners you instanciate.

Phill (29/43) Apr 04 2004 I just do this(as im sure a lot of other people do)

"Phill" <phill pacific.net.au> writes:

Is this URL not up to date?

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/comparison.html

I noticed that it states that D doesnt have
inner classes, but as you know it does.

Phill.




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Matthias Becker <Matthias_member pathlink.com> writes:

Is this URL not up to date?

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/comparison.html

I noticed that it states that D doesnt have
inner classes, but as you know it does.

It does? I didn't know about it. Thanks for telling me. Or do you mix it up with
nested classes? Nested classes != inner classes!!!

Apr 04 2004

"Phill" <phill pacific.net.au> writes:

The difference seems to be a bit blurred to me,
after reading this quote from this URL:
========================
Like other members, a nested class can be declared static (or not). A static
nested class is called just that: a static nested class. A nonstatic nested
class is called an inner class. These are illustrated in the following code:

class EnclosingClass{
    . . .
    static class AStaticNestedClass {
        . . .
    }
    class InnerClass {
        . . .
    }
}
===================================
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/javaOO/nested.html

Phill.


"Matthias Becker" <Matthias_member pathlink.com> wrote in message
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Is this URL not up to date?

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/comparison.html

I noticed that it states that D doesnt have
inner classes, but as you know it does.

 It does? I didn't know about it. Thanks for telling me. Or do you mix it

up with
 nested classes? Nested classes != inner classes!!!


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Apr 04 2004

"Phill" <phill pacific.net.au> writes:

But then again:

 Definition:  An inner class is a nested class whose instance exists within
an instance of its enclosing class and has direct access to the instance
members of its enclosing instance.

So it is clearly not an Inner class that D has.....

Phill.



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"Ivan Senji" <ivan.senji public.srce.hr> writes:

"Phill" <phill pacific.net.au> wrote in message
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 But then again:

  Definition:  An inner class is a nested class whose instance exists

within
 an instance of its enclosing class and has direct access to the instance
 members of its enclosing instance.

 So it is clearly not an Inner class that D has.....

I was thinking about how great would it be to have that but i didn't know it
is
called inner class. It would solve a big design problem in one of my
projects!

Apr 04 2004

Ant <duitoolkit yahoo.ca> writes:

On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 16:50:53 +0200, Ivan Senji wrote:

 "Phill" <phill pacific.net.au> wrote in message
 news:c4ogmn$22un$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 But then again:

  Definition:  An inner class is a nested class whose instance exists

 within
 an instance of its enclosing class and has direct access to the instance
 members of its enclosing instance.

 So it is clearly not an Inner class that D has.....

 
 I was thinking about how great would it be to have that but i didn't know it
 is
 called inner class. It would solve a big design problem in one of my
 projects!

I don't know why we don't have them.

for your design problems just pass a pointer of the 
outer (nesting?) class to the nested class
I do it all the time.

I can't believe that it would be any problem at all to 
add inner classes to the language.

Ant

Apr 04 2004

"Ivan Senji" <ivan.senji public.srce.hr> writes:

"Ant" <duitoolkit yahoo.ca> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.04.04.14.00.38.516985 yahoo.ca...
 On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 16:50:53 +0200, Ivan Senji wrote:

 "Phill" <phill pacific.net.au> wrote in message
 news:c4ogmn$22un$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 But then again:

  Definition:  An inner class is a nested class whose instance exists

 within
 an instance of its enclosing class and has direct access to the



instance
 members of its enclosing instance.

 So it is clearly not an Inner class that D has.....

 I was thinking about how great would it be to have that but i didn't


know it
 is
 called inner class. It would solve a big design problem in one of my
 projects!

 I don't know why we don't have them.

 for your design problems just pass a pointer of the
 outer (nesting?) class to the nested class
 I do it all the time.

I would do it too but i have some really small classes (not so many data)
and the inner classes solution would be much nicer.

 I can't believe that it would be any problem at all to
 add inner classes to the language.

 Ant

Apr 04 2004

Ant <duitoolkit yahoo.ca> writes:

On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 22:26:52 +0200, Ivan Senji wrote:

 "Ant" <duitoolkit yahoo.ca> wrote in message
 news:pan.2004.04.04.14.00.38.516985 yahoo.ca...
 On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 16:50:53 +0200, Ivan Senji wrote:

 "Phill" <phill pacific.net.au> wrote in message
 news:c4ogmn$22un$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 But then again:

  Definition:  An inner class is a nested class whose instance exists

 within
 an instance of its enclosing class and has direct access to the



 instance
 members of its enclosing instance.

 So it is clearly not an Inner class that D has.....

 I was thinking about how great would it be to have that but i didn't


 know it
 is
 called inner class. It would solve a big design problem in one of my
 projects!

 I don't know why we don't have them.

 for your design problems just pass a pointer of the
 outer (nesting?) class to the nested class
 I do it all the time.

 
 I would do it too but i have some really small classes (not so many data)
 and the inner classes solution would be much nicer.
 

We agree. I do that with nested classes,
and the nested class is a friend of the outer class
so it has access to all it's members.

this compiles and runs as expected:

public class A
{
	private int a;
	
	this()
	{
		new B(this);
	}
	
	private class B
	{
		int a;
		this(A outerClassThatIsAFriend)
		{
			outerClassThatIsAFriend.a = 1;
			a = 23;
			printf("B.this outerClassThatIsAFriend.a = %d\n", outerClassThatIsAFriend.a);
			printf("B.this a = %d\n", a);
		}
	}
}

int main(char[][] args)
{
	new A;
	return 0;
}




Ant

Apr 04 2004

"Manfred Nowak" <svv1999 hotmail.com> writes:

Ant wrote:
 I don't know why we don't have them.

[...]

What is the difference between an inner class and a nested class which is
derived from its enclosing class?

So long!

Apr 04 2004

Ant <duitoolkit yahoo.ca> writes:

On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 04:24:57 +0200, Manfred Nowak wrote:

 
 Ant wrote:
 I don't know why we don't have them.

 [...]
 
 What is the difference between an inner class and a nested class which is
 derived from its enclosing class?
 
 So long!

you only have one enclosing instance for all the inners you instanciate.

Ant

Apr 04 2004

"Phill" <phill pacific.net.au> writes:

I just do this(as im sure a lot of other people do)

---------------------
class outer
{
 char[] test = "hi there";
 this()
 {
  new inner("outer");
  }

class inner : Frame
{
 this(char[] str)
 {
  outer o;
  printf(o.test);
  }

 }//end inner

}//end outer

You can do exactly the same with methods ie:

outer o;
o.doIt();


Phill.

"Ivan Senji" <ivan.senji public.srce.hr> wrote in message
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 "Phill" <phill pacific.net.au> wrote in message
 news:c4ogmn$22un$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 But then again:

  Definition:  An inner class is a nested class whose instance exists

 within
 an instance of its enclosing class and has direct access to the instance
 members of its enclosing instance.

 So it is clearly not an Inner class that D has.....

 I was thinking about how great would it be to have that but i didn't know

it
 is
 called inner class. It would solve a big design problem in one of my
 projects!


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