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The inner variable shadows the outer variable.

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Methods and inner classes are declared in other classes. This allows the inner structures to reference variables in the outer structure. This is very useful, except for one dangerous case. When the inner structure, eg a method, declares its own local variables, what happens if a local variable has the same name as an outer instance variable?
The inner variable shadows the outer variable. This is almost always a bad idea, and leads to a lot of confusion. My advice is never shadow a variable.

Setter methods
The one case where this is commonly used is in setter methods. These are methods which simply set instance variables. The reason to make them methods rather than simply public variables is so that in new value can be checked or the implementation may later be changed, and this change can be hidden in the method. However, the majority of these methods simply pass a value directly to/from an instance variable.

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