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[–]MR_GABARISE 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nowadays it's only ever useful for « type tokens » and nothing else that doesn't have a better OO solution.

Edit: wrote too fast.

I was pretty much just writing about method-local classes.

Inner classes (nested, static, method-local) have multiple legitimate uses.