[m-rev.] for review: java enumerations

[Julien Fischer]

On Tue, 26 May 2009, Peter Wang wrote:

> On 2009-05-26, Julien Fischer <juliensf at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>>
>> In principle, there's no reason that `:- pragma foreign_enum' couldn't
>> use Java enums in the java grade.  I certainly intended it to work with
>> target languages that support stongly typed enumerations, i.e. not C
>> style ones.
>
> Can you explain?  From what I have read, you can't assign ordinal values
> manually with Java enums.

I wasn't assuming you would be able to assign ordinal values to them.
Presumably, if whatever Java code you are trying to interface to use
Java enums then it doesn't care about doing that anyway.

Julien.
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