When I was writing code regularly in both C++ and Java in the early days of Java, I often missed Java’s (at the time) lack of an enum. Fortunately, when Java finally got its enum, it was worth the ...

package dustin.examples; /** * Enum representing select western states in the United Sates. */ public enum States { ARIZONA("Arizona"), CALIFORNIA("California ...

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 ...