Doug,
I don't get it. You can set and unset flags on your own EnumSet. Why isn't
that sufficient?
Josh
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Doug Lea <d...@cs.oswego.edu> wrote:
> On 03/28/13 13:18, Tim Peierls wrote:
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>> I can't find a discussion of why Spliterator flags are ints rather than
>> enum.
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> We started out with enums on (my) initial Spliterator side vs
> control flags internal to streams. The we had to somehow
> mesh these to work together. On the stream side, you need
> to set and unset various bits across stages. Clearly
> you can't do that to someone's EnumSet -- they will not expect
> you to modify it, but enforcing this makes it both unwieldy and
> sleaze-inducing (we'd have to grab underlying representation from
> EnumSet).
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> Another way of saying this is that we needed an efficient
> propagate-by-value small-N bit set mechanism, and the only candidate
> was the traditional one. This amounts to the same reason
> that nio "interest" flags are done the same way.
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> -Doug
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