Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Enum mixin? Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:10:17 -0700 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: Z2l1DcCELS0rATq8NqV4Sw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:9099 On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:19:29 -0400, "A. W. Dunstan" wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >I'm ok with leaving it the way it is, but does anyone know of a better >approach? Preferably one that's not so complex that it's worse than my >current state of affairs? I have fretted over this too. There was a thread a week or so ago about dynamic enums -- creating something like enums without using the enum keywoard. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com It should not be considered an error when the user starts something already started or stops something already stopped. This applies to browsers, services, editors... It is inexcusable to punish the user by requiring some elaborate sequence to atone, e.g. open the task editor, find and kill some processes.