%u Wrote: > >> Lol, okay. Do you have any other suggestions for a better > solution on how to avoid duplicating generic access masks like > MAXIMUM_ALLOWED inside each access mask type? > > > You're doing it wrong. Create OO wrapper instead. > > Hm... but: > > (1) I'm not going to create a new instance of an entire class every > single time I need to check an access mask, that's wasteful.
I meant, you write File.open or File.isReadable which do the job for you and don't expose OS cruft.