When I was writing code regularly in both C++ and Java in the early days of Java, I often missed Java’s (at the time) lack of an enum. Fortunately, when Java finally got its enum, it was worth the ...

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Most new Java developers quickly learn that they should generally compare Java Strings using String.equals(Object) rather than using ==. This is emphasized and reinforced to new developers repeatedly ...