Re: Let's discuss enums!
| From: | Rowan Collins | Date: | Fri, 18 Sep 2015 08:42:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Let's discuss enums! | ||
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On 18 September 2015 01:15:43 BST, Bob Weinand <bobwei9@hotmail.com> wrote:
>The reason it is not an associative array is that the names are not
>important.
...
>You never should *rely* on the ordinal value of the enum for anything.
I feel like I'm missing something here. In my mind, the only absolute universal about all enum
implementations is that you refer to values by constant names - e.g. Weekdays::SUNDAY. The name
'SUNDAY' is as fundamental and unchanging as the name 'Weekdays'.
We rely on names to reference classes and functions all the time, and to serialize properties of an
object; so what is it about enums that makes having an integer accessible so important?
I note that Java does supply an ordinal(), but the docs say you should basically never use it.
Regards,
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Rowan Collins
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