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Re: limitations on using enum as generic parameter

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From	Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>
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Subject	Re: limitations on using enum as generic parameter
Date	Wed, 9 Feb 2011 10:07:04 -0800 (PST)
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On Feb 8, 5:44 pm, Daniele Futtorovic
<da.futt.n...@laposte.net.invalid> wrote:
> On 08/02/2011 21:31, Lew allegedly wrote:
>
> > "Ken Wesson" allegedly wrote:
> >>> In the special case of an enum there's getEnumConstants.
>
> > Daniele Futtorovic wrote:
> >> Which doesn't work via reflection, FWIW
>
> > Would you explain what you mean by that?  'getEnumConstants()' is
> > itself a method of reflection.
>
> It means what it says and, upon verification, turns out to be my
>

If I understood what it said, I wouldn't have had to ask.

> mistake. I had assumed there was some VM support for the enum constants.
> Hadn't checked well enough. Thanks for pointing it out.
>

What does the VM have to do with it?  This is a Java question, not a
VM question.

My question is what you mean by "via reflection"?  I understand the
term to mean the use of methods that reveal information about a type
without direct use of the type as such.  So whatever the VM does or
does not do, 'getEnumConstants()' is a reflective method.

Because your stsatement seems well founded on an understanding that is
different from mine, I ask again what you mean.

--
Lew

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Re: limitations on using enum as generic parameter Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte.net.invalid> - 2011-02-08 20:33 +0100
  Re: limitations on using enum as generic parameter Lew <lew@lewscanon.com> - 2011-02-09 10:07 -0800
  Re: limitations on using enum as generic parameter Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte.net.invalid> - 2011-02-08 23:44 +0100
  Re: limitations on using enum as generic parameter Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte.net.invalid> - 2011-02-08 20:47 +0100
    Re: limitations on using enum as generic parameter Lew <lew@lewscanon.com> - 2011-02-08 12:31 -0800
  Re: limitations on using enum as generic parameter Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-08 20:40 +0100

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