The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

deadbeef · 2005-06-16 Reply Admin

dubwai:

Not sure if you are kidding here.  const isn't allowed in Java. In Java we use typesafe enums that look like this:

public class DayOfWeek
{
    public static final DayOfWeek SUNDAY = new DayOfWeek();
    public static final DayOfWeek MONDAY = new DayOfWeek();
    public static final DayOfWeek TUESDAY = new DayOfWeek();
    public static final DayOfWeek WEDNESDAY = new DayOfWeek();
    public static final DayOfWeek THURSDAY = new DayOfWeek();
    public static final DayOfWeek FRIDAY = new DayOfWeek();
    public static final DayOfWeek SATURDAY = new DayOfWeek();

    private DayOfWeek(){}
}

I know they have their purpose but I've seen enums like this used to the point (~4000 fields) where they hit the limit for the amount of static data you can have per class. Around 40KB if I recall correctly.

dubwai · 2005-06-17 Reply Admin

deadbeef:

I know they have their purpose but I've seen enums like this used to the point (~4000 fields) where they hit the limit for the amount of static data you can have per class. Around 40KB if I recall correctly.

4000 seems a little excessive. I don't know if there's much value in defining that many typesafe enums.

deadbeef · 2005-06-17 Reply Admin

dubwai:
4000 seems a little excessive. I don't know if there's much value in defining that many typesafe enums.

Exactly. Eventually it was changed to read the values from a file I believe.

2005-06-21 Reply Admin

it's not even real code, someone just badly made this include file up..

Dim iN

causes an unexpected identifier error, because you can't declare a vb keyword (in)

DJ

Charles Nadolski · 2005-07-17 Reply Admin

I finally found the game that I programmed all in Intel assembly in college!

http://www.geocities.com/apollo_uiuc/ece291/index.html

I think it's slightly out of date. Good luck trying to get it to compile! It used some libray/exe wrapper called ex291.

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