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From Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid>
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Subject Re: Fixing "typos" in enums...
Date Mon, 18 Nov 2013 13:37:01 -0500
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On 11/18/2013 12:33 PM, markspace wrote:
> 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.

     If you change the method signatures, haven't you already
given up on backwards compatibility?  And if you're willing to
sacrifice compatibility, why not just fix the damn' typo and
break for lunch?

-- 
Eric Sosman
esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid

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Fixing "typos" in enums... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-11-15 16:25 +0000
  Re: Fixing "typos" in enums... markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-11-15 09:05 -0800
    Re: Fixing "typos" in enums... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-11-18 17:20 +0000
      Re: Fixing "typos" in enums... markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-11-18 09:33 -0800
        Re: Fixing "typos" in enums... Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-11-18 13:37 -0500
        Re: Fixing "typos" in enums... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-11-18 18:58 +0000
          Re: Fixing "typos" in enums... markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-11-18 11:35 -0800
            Re: Fixing "typos" in enums... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-11-18 20:34 +0000
  Re: Fixing "typos" in enums... Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-11-15 20:10 +0100
    Re: Fixing "typos" in enums... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-11-18 17:29 +0000
      Re: Fixing "typos" in enums... Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-11-18 19:38 +0100
        Re: Fixing "typos" in enums... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-11-18 19:34 +0000
  Re: Fixing "typos" in enums... Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2013-11-16 10:16 +0100
    Re: Fixing "typos" in enums... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-11-18 18:25 +0000
      Re: Fixing "typos" in enums... Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-11-18 13:45 -0500
        Re: Fixing "typos" in enums... Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-11-18 20:20 +0100
        Re: Fixing "typos" in enums... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-11-18 20:09 +0000
          Re: Fixing "typos" in enums... Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-11-18 17:00 -0500
            Re: Fixing "typos" in enums... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-11-19 15:39 +0000
  Re: Fixing "typos" in enums... Arivald <NOSPAMarivald@interia.pl> - 2013-11-19 00:29 +0100
    Re: Fixing "typos" in enums... lipska the kat <"lipskathekat at yahoo dot co dot uk"> - 2013-11-19 11:14 +0000

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