Re: Enum in Eclipse Scrapbook

From:

Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Thu, 7 Mar 2013 13:34:01 -0800 (PST)

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Arne Vajh=F8j wrote:

Lew wrote:

Arne Vajh=F8j wrote:

Lew wrote:

Arne Vajh=F8j wrote:

... Assuming that we consider enum a class.

It doesn't matter what you assume or consider, an enum is a class.

That is how JLS define it.

Q.E.D.

But some may consider class to be something with they class keyword.

Some would be wrong.

Of course, I'm wrong in the Enum does, indeed, use the 'class' keyword.

public abstract class Enum<E extends Enum<E>>
"This is the common base class of all Java language enumeration types."

Things are what they are. If you consider them not to be, you are wrong.

Some need to educate themselves.

I am a bit less dogmatic about such things.

I don't have a problem with people referring to actual Java syntax
instead of the explanation in English in JLS.

Then we agree, since the "actual Java syntax" is that it's a class.
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Enum.html

And what you disingenuously call "the explanation in English in [the] JLS" =
is not an
explanation but a specification, an entirely different beast, that normativ=
ely *defines*
the terms.

--
Lew