Dual View Enums

[Roedy Green]

I am greatly enjoying Java 1.5 enums, especially the clean
easy-to-read foreach.


This sort of code:

boolean hasJar ( AppCat type )
{
switch (.type )
{
default:
case APPLET:
case HYBRID:
case APPLICATION:
case LIBRARY:
case JWS:
return true;

case DOCUMENTATION:
case SERVLET:
case UTILITY:
return false;
}

}
collapses to:
/* jar desc */
APPLET( true, "xxxx" );
HYBRID( true, "yyyy" );

You still get a bird's eye view, but you also get a birds eye view of
each enum, in a nice grid, so you can compare both by column and by
row.

This is something I was hoping for in a scid, never dreaming I would
get to see both views at once.




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