<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Oct 5, 2008, at 8:38 PM, Michael van der Gulik wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Mark Volkmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@ociweb.com">mark@ociweb.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div style="">Have I summarized this correctly?<div><p style="clear: both;">Smalltalk doesn't support the concept of enumerated types like in Java 5 and above. Instead, the Smalltalk way is to:</p><snip></div></div> </blockquote><div><br></div></div><br>What are you using enums for? I've never found I've needed them, often because the need for them can be refactored away and you end up with cleaner code.<br><br>Often I just use symbols (i.e. #red, #blue, #green). These are generic descriptive names for thingies.<br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>I haven't used them yet in Smalltalk, but I'm thinking I'll have a need to verify that a value passed to a method is a member of a confined set. Maybe I should just test a symbol passed as an argument to a method to see if it's in an array of allowed symbols.<br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">---</div><div>Mark Volkmann</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>