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THE Java™ Programming Language, Fourth Edition
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THE Java™ Programming Language, Fourth Edition

by Ken Arnold, James Gosling, David Holmes
August 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
928 pages
20h 39m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 6. Enumeration Types

 

Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.

 
 --Dorothy Parker, “Inventory”

An enumeration type—sometimes known as an enumerated type, or more simply as an enum—is a type for which all values for the type are known when the type is defined. For example, an enum representing the suits in a deck of cards would have the possible values hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades; and an enum for the days of the week would have the values Monday, Tuesday, ...

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