8.5. Member Type Declarations
A member class is a class whose declaration is directly enclosed in another class or interface declaration.
A member interface is an interface whose declaration is directly enclosed in another class or interface declaration.
The accessibility of a member type in a class declaration is specified in §6.6.
It is a compile-time error if a member type declaration has more than one of the access modifiers public, protected, and private.
Member type declarations may have annotation modifiers (§9.7) like any other type or member declaration.
The scope and shadowing of a member type is specified in §6.3 and §6.4.
If a class declares a member type with a certain name, then the declaration of that type is said to hide any and ...
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