Why isn't the Java compiler (specifically its parser) able to understand this statement

I have the following two classes (in two separate files).

public class Foo
{
    public static class A
    {
        public static final boolean FLAG = false;
    }

    public final A A = new A();
}


public class Bar
{
    void method()
    {
         if (Foo.A.FLAG)  <<<< this is giving "Cannot make static ref to non-static field
            // do something
           ;
    }
}

My question is, why isn't the compiler able to recorgnise that by Foo.A, I meant the class A, not the member, which also happens to be named A?