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enums and protected modifier
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Sasha Ruehmkorf
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Joined: Mar 29, 2007
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Hi.
I just tried to declare a member of an enum protected and it worked. Protected-access would be exactly the same as the default-access as there will never be a subclass from an enum, is this right?
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Ilja Preuss
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Joined: Jul 11, 2001
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Sounds right to me.
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Trond Valen
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Joined: Aug 31, 2007
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I partly agree, it is the same as default access, but why is the protected modifier allowed for enum variables when enums can't be "subclassed"? I thought the main principle was that modifiers that make no sense or introduce redundancy are not allowed, just like classes can't be protected or private. In this case, protected is redundant, because it's the same as having no modifiers (default access).
But then again, protected variables are allowed in final classes, and enums can be seen as a special kind of final classes. This brings me to another question: can you always choose access modifiers for class and instance variables regardless of which modifiers the class has?
[ August 31, 2007: Message edited by: Trond Valen ]
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