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From: Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm>
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Andreas Leitgeb schrieb:
>   // public enum Foo { FURST, SECOND }
>   public enum Foo { FIRST, SECOND; public static final FURST = FIRST; }

Maybe mark FURST also as deprecated.
And put a comment that says what should
be used instead of FURST, which could
go into javadoc.

And of course replacing FURST by FIRST
shouldn't be an issue when your project
and the clients of your project are in
the reach of refactoring tools. But yes
for public APIs, this is annoying.

In as far APIs behave similar as natural
language since for whatever reason synonyms
develop, and even word meanings disappear
over the time. Overloading of methods even
allows a form of polysemy.

Bye