Question about scope in the enum example in the Java Tutorial

Question

Hi,
On page http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/javaOO/enum.html of the Java tutorial the enumeration MONDAY is not prefixed with the enum name when it is used in the function tellItLikeItIs.
public class EnumTest {
     Day day;
     public EnumTest(Day day) {
          this.day = day;
     public void tellItLikeItIs() {
          switch (day) {
               case MONDAY: System.out.println("Mondays are bad.");
                              break;
               case FRIDAY: System.out.println("Fridays are better.");
                              break;How does the compiler know that MONDAY is the same as Day.MONDAY? Is it because of
switch(day)Then later in the main MONDAY must be prefixed with Day. I removed Day. and it did not compile. Why is Day. necessary in main but not in tellItLikeItIs?
public static void main(String[] args) {
          EnumTest firstDay = new EnumTest(Day.MONDAY);
          firstDay.tellItLikeItIs();Thank you.

Answer 1

swtich is a special case.
The label for each 'case' of a switch
will infer based on the type of switch value
switch(d) {
case MONDAY:
case TUESDAY:
will automatically refer to the MONDAY and TUESDAY
corresponding to d's type.