Re: enum question

From:
Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 29 Apr 2010 23:38:06 +0100
Message-ID:
<alpine.DEB.1.10.1004292335280.7612@urchin.earth.li>
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, www wrote:

Jeff Higgins wrote:

Can you use an EnumSet? You don't say how you intend to use your
hierarchy of enums.


Thank you. I rephrase my question as following:

I need to have two Enum types. Most elements of the two are the same, but
there are some different ones.

enum CarModelOfFactor1
{
CarModelA, CarModelB, CarModelC, CarModelM
}

enum CarModelOfFactor2
{
CarModelA, CarModelB, CarModelC, CarModelX, CarModelW
}

I just hate to code "CarModelA, CarModelB, CarModelC" twice inside the
two enums. I am wondering if there is a better way to do it.


Why do there have to be multiple enums? What are they used for? Could you
have one big enum which had all the values?

tom

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