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From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Re: Using Enumerated Types as Array Indexes
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Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
> byte b = 0xA0; // won't compile

Actually, it *does* compile due to some special rule in
the JLS w.r.t initializers.

That, however doesn't impact the the point you made.
Had you just written it thusly:
  byte b; b = 0xA0; // won't compile
it would have been correct altogether. :-)