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Re: Dynamic enums

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On 10/11/2011 10:05 PM, Eric Sosman wrote:
> [...]
> No. The names of enum constants are compile-time artifacts,
> just like the names of local variables. At run-time, all such
> things have disappeared (well, they may survive in ancillary debug
> data, but the C language has no access to such things).

     Oh, ratzafratz: I forgot which newsgroup I was in.  The *Java*
language has access to this sort of information via reflection.
Still, the information is very nearly read-only, and reflection
can't inject a new enum into the mix.  (Java can, of course, load
a new .class with a new definition for the enum -- but that just
introduces a different enum class that happens to have the same
name, under the scope of a different classloader.)

-- 
Eric Sosman
esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid

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