Why is super.super.method(); not allowed in Java?

Posted by Tim Büthe on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Tim Büthe
Published on 2009-02-25T15:10:38Z Indexed on 2010/05/07 14:28 UTC
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I read this question and thought that would easily be solved (not that it isn't solvable without) if one could write:

@Override
public String toString() {
    return super.super.toString();
}

I'm not sure if it is useful in many cases, but I wonder why it isn't and if something like this exists in other languages.

What do you guys think?

EDIT: To clarify: yes I know, that's impossible to at to Java and I don't really miss it. This is nothing I expected to work and was surprised getting a compiler error. I just had the idea and like to discuss it.

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