Question

I have an enum type…

public static enum Methods {
    NOTEQUAL,
    ORDERED,
    minMatch,
    minItem,
    minLength,
    sameLength,
}

The question is how should I use the coding convention. Should I use camelCase NotEqual (wich I use in a simple class) or should I do like this: NOT_EQUAL? Or simply use uppercase characters: NOTEQUAL, SAMELENGTH?

Is there some code convention for this?

Answer 1

I would say that the enum itself, since it’s a class, should follow the camel case convention as every class, while the entries of enum, since they are constants, should be upper case with underscore (eg. NOT_EQUAL).

The version uppercase without underscore is absolutely unreadable, never use it.