static import of an enum in Java 1.5?

[Barry Burd]

If I define
enum Scale {Celsius, Fahrenheit, Kelvin, Rakine};
in a file all its own, then I don't seem to be able to do
import static Scale.*;
in any of my other files. Isn't Scale just a class, and aren't the values
of Scale just static members of that class?

[Barry Burd]

I figured it out. Case closed.

[Gregg Bolinger]

Originally posted by Barry Burd:
I figured it out. Case closed.

What did you end up doing? Please share.

[Barry Burd]

Actually, I **thought** I had figured it out, but that's only because I was compiling the wrong code. In fact, I still don't know what's wrong. I can do a static import when I put the enum in a separate package and I do both
import util.Scale;
import static util.Scale.*;
but I can't do the import when I put the enum class in the default package. I guess this means that, since the original import declaration isn't meant to grab anything from the default package, the static import can't do that either. That's not good.

[Barry Burd]

The problem seems to be with static import for the default package in general, not with enums. For instance, the following code does not compile:
public class Stuff {
public static int i = 7;
}
--------------------...and in another file...
import static Stuff.i;
class UseStuff {
public static void main(String args[]) {
System.out.println(i);
}
}