Tommy
Registered Member

Thank you so much for this, really is appreciated & I find it very interesting.

Hey,

To answer your question, yes the naming of an enumeration element never changes. Enumeration elements are intended to be immutable and represent constant references to a single object. You can think of an enumeration like this;

Code:

static final class Food {
   
    public static final Food SHARK = new Food();

    private Food() {

    }
}

Which is exactly this

Code:

enum Food {
    SHARK
    ;

    private Food() { //private modifier is actually implicit and not needed to ensure
                            // an object cannot be constructed outside of the class
    }
}

The food object is immutable, and constant so therefor it follows the uppercase conventional naming.