Setting outer variable from anonymous inner class

Question

Is there any way to access caller-scoped variables from an anonymous inner class in Java?

Here\'s the sample code to understand what I need:

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Answer 1

If the containing class is MyClass -->

MyClass.this.variable = value;

Do not remember if this would work with a private variable (I think it would work).

Only works for attributes of the class (class variable). Does not work for method local variables. In JSE 7 probably there will be closures to do that kind of thing.