java 静态外部类,为什么外部类在Java中不是静态的？

In java, An outer class may be public, final, default or abstract.

Why not Static like

public static class MyClass{}

解决方案

An outer class is already implicitly static.

Non-static nested class (= inner class) means thats the inner class implicitly has a reference to its parent class.

That's why, for nested class, you can distinguish between static and non-static. This does not make sense for outer classes.

Here is an example to understand the difference between static/non-static nested class. You should understand why it does not make sense in an outer class.

public class MyClass {

private String anAttributeOfMyClass;

private /*static*/ class MyInnerClass {

public void foo() {

/*

* Here, I can access the attribute of the parent class

* because I implicitly have a reference to it.

* Try to make the nested class static an see the difference.

*/

anAttributeOfMyClass.trim();

}

}

}