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From: Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com>
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Subject: Re: Enum in Eclipse Scrapbook
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:53:35 -0700
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markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> writes:

> On 2/26/2013 11:17 PM, Robert Mark Bram wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 27 February 2013 18:04:20 UTC+11, Robert Mark Bram
>> wrote:
>>> It is an Eclipse Scrapbook page - a jpage file. There is no class
>>> as such.
>>
>> Which most likely means that Eclipse shoves the code into a main
>> method I guess.. which may simply mean I cannot declare an enum in a
>> Scrapbook.
>>
>
> No se hablo Eclipse Scapbook -- is that a plugin?  Like some sort of
> bean shell or copy-paste tool?
>
> I'm used to class names matching file names;  when they don't you get
> errors like missing top-level classes and whatnot.  That's why I
> focused in on the file name.  I assumed you might have copied the code
> to a new file but forgotten to change the file name.
>
> It does sound like a bug in whatever is doing the parsing here, or at
> least a missing feature.

The scrapbook is a special Eclipse buffer that lets you enter little
code snippets and evaluate them.  Since Java is not by nature a dynamic
language, it's not surprising that this doesn't always work perfectly.

-- 
Jim Janney