Java enums have int ordinal values: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Enum.html#ordinal() http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/En

Java enums have int ordinal values: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Enum.html#ordinal() http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Enum.html... I think what you mean though is that in 99.9% of cases a user of a Java enum never needs to (or shouldn't) refer to the ordinal value.