Re: False positives

Nils Kilden-Pedersen wrote:
> On 11/7/06, *Robert Wenner* <robert.wenner@xxxxxx 
> <mailto:robert.wenner@xxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     CI: Class Message is final but declares protected field _cal
>     This is true, but on purpose. Java allows derived classes AND classes in
>     the same package to access protected members.
>     I'd like to not see this warning if there is in fact code in the
>     current
>     scope (project) that does access the protected field.
>
>
> Why isn't it defined with default (package) protection? Making it 
> protected does not make sense if the class is final.

IIRC, classes derived from inner classes also have access to outer class 
protected members (although I think the rules were slightly different in 
1.1). Very odd, but legal (I think).

Tom Hawtin