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Re: limitations on using enum as generic parameter

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On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:33:37 +0100, Daniele Futtorovic wrote:

> On 08/02/2011 19:46, Ken Wesson allegedly wrote:
>> That's not going to work. It's a static method of a class that isn't
>> determined at this point in the code, so the compiler simply has no
>> clue what to call. Hence the error message.
>>
>> If you really need to do something like this, you'll need to use
>> reflection on a class object.
> 
> For the record: no. See my and ninja markspace's replies.

I meant the general case of wanting to invoke a static method on a type 
parameter, where the method depends on the run-time type (so, it's not a 
method of X where you have <E extends X>, but a method implemented 
differently for each choice of E).

In the special case of an enum there's getEnumConstants.

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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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