topic: Nested Classes

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  • TOPICS: Generics
  • Classes can be nested in other classes

    class Outer {
        private val bar: Int = 1
        class Nested {
        fun foo() = 2
        }
        }
    
        val demo = Outer.Nested().foo() // == 2
    

    Inner classes

    A class may be marked as inner to be able to access members of outer class. Inner classes carry a reference to an object of an outer class:

    class Outer {
        private val bar: Int = 1
        inner class Inner {
        fun foo() = bar
        }
        }
    
        val demo = Outer().Inner().foo() // == 1 
    

    Anonymous inner classes

    Anonymous inner class instances are created using an object expression:

    window.addMouseListener(object: MouseAdapter() {
        override fun mouseClicked(e: MouseEvent) {
        // ...
        }
    
        override fun mouseEntered(e: MouseEvent) {
        // ...
        }
        }) 
    

    If the object is an instance of a functional Java interface (i.e. a Java interface with a single abstract method), you can create it using a lambda expression prefixed with the type of the interface:

     val listener = ActionListener { println("clicked") }
    

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