enum

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 4/11/14, 12:31 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Friday, April 11, 2014 08:22:01 Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> final enum name { ... }
>
> This only makes sense to me if it's then illegal to declare any variables of
> that enum type, because if you're looking to use an enum to give a list of
> possible values rather than enumerating the exact list of values, why would
> you be marking _any_ variable as being of that enum type?

I don't understand that contention. "final" clarifies that the set of 
values in the enumeration is closed.

Andrei