Enum "Inheritance"?

[Kagamin]

%u Wrote:

> >> Lol, okay. Do you have any other suggestions for a better
> solution on how to avoid duplicating generic access masks like
> MAXIMUM_ALLOWED inside each access mask type?
> 
> > You're doing it wrong. Create OO wrapper instead.
> 
> Hm... but:
> 
> (1) I'm not going to create a new instance of an entire class every
> single time I need to check an access mask, that's wasteful.

I meant, you write File.open or File.isReadable which do the job for you and don't expose OS cruft.