Bug 396883

Description Rüdiger Herrmann 2012-12-18 18:12:07 EST

Turn on the 'Method can be static' compiler warning and compile the snippet below.
The compiler issues a warning that the 'internalMethod' should be declared static. Admittedly this is a weird construct, but this method cannot be declared static.
Removing the 'ExtendedClass' before the 'super' keyword resolves the problem.

class ExtendableClass {
  String[] method() {
    return null;
  }
}

class ExtendingClass extends ExtendableClass {
  String[] method() {
    return internalMethod();
  }

  private String[] internalMethod() {  // Method can be declared as static
    return ExtendingClass.super.method();
  }
}