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Asked: 2026-05-10T20:49:49+00:00

public enum myEnum { VAL1(10), VAL2(20), VAL3(hai) { public Object getValue() { return this.strVal;

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public enum myEnum {     VAL1(10), VAL2(20), VAL3('hai') {         public Object getValue() {             return this.strVal;         }         public String showMsg() {             return 'This is your msg!';         }     };     String strVal;     Integer intVal;     public Object getValue() {         return this.intVal;     }     private myEnum(int i) {         this.intVal = new Integer(i);     }     private myEnum(String str) {         this.strVal = str;     } }

In the above enum what exactly happens when I add a constant specific class body for VAL3?

The type of VAL3 is definetly a subtype of myEnum as it has overloaded and additional methods. (the class type comes as ‘myEnum$1’ )

But how can the compiler creates a subtype enum extending myEnum as all the enums are already extending java.lang.enum ?

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  1. Your class myEnum inherits from java.lang.Enum. VAL3 is an anonymous inner class that inherits from myEnum called myEnum$1. Think of the enum keyword as syntatic sugar. It sets up classes with normal inheritance trees for you, but will not allow you to extend java.lang.Enum or myEnum directly.

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