I thought inner classes could access the outer class variables/methods?

Question

I did read a number of topics discussing inner classes, and i was under the impression that an inner class has access to the variables and methods of the enclosing class. In

Answer 1

An Non-static inner class has an implicit reference to the OuterClass.....

Try it out like this.....

class OuterClass {

    String a = "A";
    String b = "B";
    String c = "C";

    class InnerClass {

            String x = a;    // Directly uses the instance variable a from Outer class


    }

    public static class StaticInnerClass {
        int x;
    }

    public String stringConCat() {
        return a + b + c;

    }
}

public class TestStatic {

    public static void main(String args[]) {

        OuterClass.StaticInnerClass staticClass = new OuterClass.StaticInnerClass();
        OuterClass outer = new OuterClass();
        OuterClass.InnerClass inner = outer.new InnerClass();

        System.out.println(inner.x);

    }
}