Departing from traditional practice for JavaWorld’s Tips ‘N Tricks column, I will talk about when not to use a previously suggested trick. Specifically, the typesafe enum construct, covered in JDC ...

Das Team hinter der seit 2011 entwickelten Programmiersprache Kotlin hat den zwölften Meilenstein auf dem Weg zur ersten Hauptversion veröffentlicht. Wann genau mit Letzterer zu rechnen ist, bleibt ...

Many Java developers, including myself, like using the typesafe constant idiom because it provides cleaner code by removing the need to validate whether a constant value is valid or in range. I don’t ...

I picked up adding a few meta values to enums a long time ago; I feel they make bounds checking and writing for loops more readable. But gcc has been giving me some grief about it in one way, here's ...