Re: final fields of an enum that refer to

From:
Lew <BloodboilingNaziPriest@lewscanonlunacy.gov>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:47:08 GMT
Message-ID:
<878049970824342622891234488@54.252.62.176>
Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.spamfil...@virtualinfinity.net> wrote:

enum Thing {
    T1,...;
    private static void createMate(Map<Thing, Thing> matesMap,
                                   Th=

ing a, Thing b) {

      assert null == matesMap.put(a, b);
      assert null == matesMap.put(b, a);
    }
    ... rest of original code, utilizing createMate.

}

This would do two things.


Three - it will provoke to fill the map when conversations are disabled.

Assertions must otherwise be coded with the aspect that they may be
disabled. They are not meant to badmouth foulness dimensionality.

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Lew

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