IG|IPP: missorted modifiers bug

Same happens also with "public abstract static" classes.

Tom

A method can't be both abstract and static can it? My IDEA highlights that as "Illegal combination of modifiers: 'abstract' and 'static'"

Bas

I was talking about (inner) classes, not methods.

Tom

Thomas Singer (MoTJ) wrote:

I was talking about (inner) classes, not methods.

Tom

Just out of curiosity, what would be your reasoning for having an inner
class that is private abstract static?

Whoops, sorry for not reading correctly. This is actually a known bug and I have submitted a fix for this back in July if I recall correctly. Unfortenately that wasn't in time for the 4.5 release.
See http://www.intellij.net/tracker/idea/viewSCR?publicId=36391

Just out of curiosity, what would be your reasoning for having an inner
class that is private abstract static?

It's the abstract super class of two other inner classes.

Tom