IntegerSlotsEnum

The IntegerSlotsEnum is an interface that helps ensure that object representations and access are consistent and correct. In particular, some operations in AvailObject (such as AvailObject.slot) are expected to operate on enumerations defined as inner classes within the Descriptor class for which the slot layout is specified.

Additionally, AvailObject is implemented with both object slots and integer slots in such a way that the two should not be confused; i.e., their ordinals are used as indices into either an Array of AvailObject or a LongArray. A related interface ObjectSlotsEnum helps to keep these uses disjoint.

Author

Mark van Gulik