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More enum confusion

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Eric Smith - 12 May 2007 07:54 GMT
The documentation for the Enum method ordinal() states "Most programmers
will have no use for this method."  Since I can't use an enum constant
directly as an array index (which seems like a huge oversight), how else
would I use it for indexing *other* than getting the ordinal?

Thanks,
Eric
Tom Hawtin - 12 May 2007 12:07 GMT
> The documentation for the Enum method ordinal() states "Most programmers
> will have no use for this method."  Since I can't use an enum constant
> directly as an array index (which seems like a huge oversight), how else
> would I use it for indexing *other* than getting the ordinal?

Forget (reference) arrays. They are broken.

Use java.util.EnumMap.

Tom Hawtin


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