Java Coding Problems

153. Getting synthetic and bridge constructs

By using synthetic constructs, we can understand almost any construct that's added by the compiler. More precisely, conforming to the Java language specification: any constructs introduced by a Java compiler that do not have a corresponding construct in the source code must be marked as synthetic, except for default constructors, the class initialization method, and the values and valueOf() methods of the Enum class.

There are different kinds of synthetic constructs (for example, fields, methods, and constructors), but let's take a look at an example of a synthetic field. Let's assume that we have the following class:

public class Melon {  ...  public class Slice {}  ...}

Notice that we have an inner ...