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Subject: Re: Fixing "typos" in enums...
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 09:33:43 -0800
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On 11/18/2013 9:20 AM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
> markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> wrote:
>> On 11/15/2013 8:25 AM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
>>>    @Deprecated public enum Foo { FURST, SECOND }
>>>    public enum Fooing { FIRST, SECOND }
>
> This solution would require duplicating lots of other
> code, like methods taking that enum as parameter...

So you change the old method to a new method that takes the new type. 
It's called refactoring.  You don't duplicate methods, that's dumb.

>
> Also, in my case at hand the enum itself already has the
> one and only correct name for that task (and it's of course

I dislike adding a "2" onto new interface names, so I showed that coming 
up with a new name is better.  I'm sure if you really think about it, 
you can come up with a new name.  So far in the Java API, we've had 
Date, Calendar and now LocalDateTime to all mean essentially the same 
thing.  A little creativity and thought is required.