[przemelek]

MyEclipse 7.5 reports error “Cannot reference a field before it is defined” for 2nd line of this code.

public enum T {
    A(T.CONST);
    static final String CONST = "T";    
    private T(String str) {
    }
}

Eclipse 3.5 RC4, and MyEclipse 7.1.1 likes this code, and doesn’t complain.

Any suggestions? 🙂

[Loyal Water]

Can you go to MyEclipse > Installation Summary > Installation Details and paste the information here for me.

In 7.1 you will get a warning saying “Cannot Resolve T.CONST”.

Can you send me some screenshots pointing out the issue that you reported or give me some more details on how to reproduce it. I was unable to reproduce it at my end.

[przemelek]

Base on answer which I got on Twitter, it isn’t problem caused by MyEclipse, but by Eclipse 3.4.2 https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=269388
And in “bundled” version of MyEclipse 7.5 you are using Eclipse 3.4.2.

[Scott Anderson]

Very interesting… reading the bug report at Eclipse it seems like this error reporting is actually correct, as per the JLS. It’s likely that Eclipse 3.4.1 wasn’t as rigorous about compliance and 3.4.2 actually is a more conforming implementation. I learn something new every day. 🙂

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