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Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods

From	Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods
Date	2011-03-30 10:33 -0700
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On Mar 30, 12:40 pm, Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.n...@laposte-dot-
net.invalid> wrote:
> On 30/03/2011 01:05, Lew allegedly wrote:
>
> > Daniele Futtorovic wrote:
> >> For all purposes, yeah. I would however expect the one with the
> >> constant to be
> >> marginally easier, as it requires no analysis of the field.
>
> > Which of the two are you calling "the one with the constant"?
>
> The same as you when you said:
> "One returns a constant, the other a constant variable"
>

You completely missed my point, which is that BOTH are constants.

> That is to say, the solution in which the OP overrode the methods in the
> enum instances.
>

How would that one be easier for anything?  Please elucidate.

Both approaches have constants in the compiled code.

--
Lew

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Enums: Properties vs. Methods Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-03-29 08:18 -0700
  Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-03-29 11:47 -0400
    Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-03-30 20:00 +0200
      Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods Lew <lew@lewscanon.com> - 2011-03-30 13:17 -0700
        Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-03-31 00:48 -0700
          Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-03-31 08:41 -0400
            Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-03-31 08:26 -0700
              Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-03-31 22:16 -0400
                Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-02 11:56 +0200
                Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-04-02 10:29 -0400
                Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-03 13:14 +0200
  Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods markspace <-@.> - 2011-03-29 09:26 -0700
    Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-03-30 20:06 +0200
      Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods markspace <-@.> - 2011-03-30 12:40 -0700
        Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-03-31 00:38 -0700
  Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-03-29 19:03 +0200
    Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-03-29 19:04 +0200
  Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-03-29 12:49 -0700
  Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-03-29 12:52 -0700
    Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-03-29 22:45 +0200
      Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-03-29 17:08 -0400
        Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-03-29 23:25 +0200
          Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-03-29 19:05 -0400
            Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-03-29 19:40 -0400
              Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-03-31 02:57 -0700
                Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-03-31 08:52 -0400
                Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-03-31 08:54 -0400
            Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-03-30 18:40 +0200
              Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods Lew <lew@lewscanon.com> - 2011-03-30 10:33 -0700
                Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-03-30 20:43 +0200
                Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods Lew <lew@lewscanon.com> - 2011-03-30 13:20 -0700
                Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-03-31 08:55 -0400
  Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-02 11:23 +0200
    Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-04-02 10:36 -0400
      Re: Enums: Properties vs. Methods Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-02 21:20 +0200

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