posted 14 years ago
I generally will go the approach of making them private static final variables if they are to be constants which are the same for all instances of the class. I also will use different variable with the same value sometimes when they would have different meaning in different situations. so I guess I usually work more like your first example:
private static final int BLAH_1 = 0;
private static final int BLAH_2 = 0;
(nowadays I do try to avoid these things altogether when I can replace them with enums though)
-edit-Sorry, had the vars as public, but should have been private