Why shouldn't Java enum literals be able to have generic type parameters?

Question

Java enums are great. So are generics. Of course we all know the limitations of the latter because of type erasure. But there is one thing I don\'t understand, Why can\'t I

Answer 1

Becasue "enum" is the abbreviation for enumeration. It's just a set of named constants that stand in place of ordinal numbers to make the code better readable.

I don't see what the intended meaning of a type-parameterized constant could be.