Illegal Forward Reference and Enums

Question

I\'m programming a game in java which is made up of a grid of tiles. I wan\'t to be able to inuitively define the edges of the tiles and how they relate to each other, e.g.

Answer 1

With Java 8 lambdas:

public enum Edge {
  TOP(() -> Edge.BOTTOM),
  BOTTOM(() -> Edge.TOP),
  LEFT(() -> Edge.RIGHT),
  RIGHT(() -> Edge.LEFT);

  private Supplier opposite;

  private Edge(Supplier opposite) {
    this.opposite = opposite;
  }

  public Edge opposite() {
    return opposite.get();
  }
}