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What is an enum type? How do you compare two enum values?

Tests whether you know Java enums are full classes with a fixed set of singleton instances, so comparing them with == is always safe and preferred over equals() -- since each enum constant is guaranteed to be a single shared instance, unlike ordinary objects.

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