What’s the best way to implement `next` and `previous` on an enum type?

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Try this:

public static enum A { 
    X, Y, Z;
    private static A[] vals = values();
    public A next()
    {
        return vals[(this.ordinal()+1) % vals.length];
    }

Implementation of previous() is left as an exercise, but recall that in Java, the modulo a % b can return a negative number.

EDIT: As suggested, make a private static copy of the values() array to avoid array copying each time next() or previous() is called.

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