Enumerated Types

[muhsy]

I recently discovered that enum type is a special class, constructors can be formed, instance variables, and the enum data declaration can posses a primitive type.

My question is, in the general sense:

private enum Foo {
COMMA (","),
SEMICOLON (";");
private String poo 
Foo (String poo) {
this.poo = poo;
private String poo {return poo};
}

I would like to better understand this. I know I can create a variable of Foo such as Foo morePoo and access the , and ; using the names but I just don't know how well. Strong application in parsing and compiler design.

Thank you for the info

[pbrockway2]

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[DarrylBurke]

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