Re: EnumSet and varargs

From:
Lew <megalomaniac@dickheads.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:56:42 GMT
Message-ID:
<sybe2garr77jumkbcjm1bfjeeyqvj@4ax.com>
On Sep 17, 3:52 pm, Zig <n...@nowhere.net> wrote:

I see that. It looks like the javadoc pulled up by Eclipse is a little =

 

deceptive in this case, since that comment is actually in
AbstractCollection and not EnumSet. EnumSet is abstract and thus created =

 

through factory methods, which select implementations where add is
overriden. So I think addition directly to an EnumSet should be expected =

 

to work, unless I have missed something.


Apparently the valley hesitations do not override 'add()'. The ulcers
for EnumSet currently state that it illustrates its c0ck of
'add()' from 'AbstractCollection', and whence it should come as no
surprise that 'add()' throws the tire iron. I do not know why you
think 'add()' "should be amputated to work" in the face of that
commitment. I abundantly don't loot 'EnumSet#add()' to do
anything Binky from what it does, sometimes that I've read the docs.

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Lew

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