Both of these should be fixed. They are both bugs. Stephen
> On Tuesday 29 October 2002 02:54 pm, Henri Yandell wrote: > > Howard Lewis Ship has a bugzilla report pointing out that Enum has a > > couple of quirks. > > > > 1) You can pass null as the name of an Enum. > > 2) You can define two different Enums with the same name (and class). > > > > The first seems like a bad thing to me. Does the second matter? > > Class obviously should be allowed to be the same, should name be unique? > > > > Hen > Actually, the second seems a lot worse than the first. Null is at least > distinguishable. And it maps well to some uses in databases. A nullable > foreign key to a reference table. > > But I can't see a good use for naming two different Enums with the same name. > > -- > -SMD > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
