Struggling with enum!

[XmisterIS]

I feel a little silly posting about something as simple as an enum .. but I just can't get the syntax right!

All I'm trying to do is:

public final enum DeltaEnum { POSITIVE = 1, NEGATIVE = -1; }

This has the same syntax as examples I've seen posted on the web, but the compiler says ',', '}', or ';' expected.

Confused! :confused:

(And a little embarrassed :o ... !)

[Fubarable]

If you see a web example of a Java 1.5 or above enum showing code like that, I'd like to see the website, because you're code is very wrong (= 1?) and you must be looking at bad examples. Please go to the Sun/Oracle tutorials and study those pages: enum tutorial



Best of luck.

[Tolls]

That looks (sort of, if you squint) like C++ enums, where you can assign numeric values to them.

But yes, that's not Java syntax.

[XmisterIS]

If you see a web example of a Java 1.5 or above enum showing code like that, I'd like to see the website, because you're code is very wrong (= 1?) and you must be looking at bad examples. Please go to the Sun/Oracle tutorials and study those pages: enum tutorial



Best of luck.

Thanks for the link, I've fixed it using (1) and (-1) instead of =1 and =-1.

FYI, the site I was looking at was: Java enum example

[Tolls]

Yep.
The first example there is C++!

What a twit the poster on that site is.

One more reason why using the Sun/Oracle site for finding out how to do things in Java si your best bet.