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This is an interesting case, where you can access a static field while the Enum instance is being constructed though not directly through the constructor.

I tried to compile this piece of code on JDK 1.5 and 1.6 and found that it works perfectly fine with 1.5 and compilation fails with 1.6. Probably, you are trying to compile with 1.6.

Looks like they have got away with this in JDK 1.5 and fixed it in 1.6. Otherwise, this case would have been an anomaly to my post . Thanks for the use-case.

public enum MyClass {
// …
private static int nextIndex = 0;
private final int index = MyClass.nextIndex++;
/*only I get the error “Cannot refer to the static enum field MyClass.nextIndex within an initializer”*/
// …
}