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| From | Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: Fixing "typos" in enums... |
| Date | 2013-11-18 18:25 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <slrnl8kmsm.42s.avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> (permalink) |
| References | <slrnl8cing.mol.avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <l67d4o$7bl$1@news.albasani.net> |
Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 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.
Definitely a good idea, which I forgot about. Thanks for reminding!
> 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.
It would be nice, if enum had the concept of synonyms:
<dream-mode>
- each synonym is an alias for a particular constant
- synonyms would be recognized by valueOf(String)
- synonyms could be annotated as @Deprecated
- synonyms could be used in a switch, but then the
canonical name (or any other synonym for the same
constant) must not be used in the same switch.
</dream-mode>
Well, I know it's not going to happen. Just wanted it off my chest ;-)
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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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