Is it a serious mistake to keep the floor like a line?

[morde]

I have a floor in Person class. Now I'm keeping a line "муж" and "жен"♪ Should we make a list?

In general, I understand that the list is better. If I had a text field for sex entry, it would avoid a mistake. Like if the user had injected "муж" Russians, and the keyboard is English, the base would have been hit. "ve;" But I' two. JRadioButton♪ So the floor will definitely be either. "муж" or "жен"♪ In this situation, I guess it doesn't matter how to store, enumerate or row, right?

[meriah]

Java-code likes semantic and value-type. Always better enum, string literature, coded.

Tonight, you're just... "муж" and "жен"coming from JRadioButton♪ Tomorrow, you want to add in two classes a check of the value and put it in there. if (value == "муж")♪ After tomorrow "муж" and "жен" Added "не определился"♪ Then they'll add checks in three more classes. And in a while, for some reason, you'll need to be replaced. "муж" ♪ "мужской"♪ "жен" ♪ "женский"♪ Or compare every floor with additional metadata. There's something you're going to be happy that you have one enum that you can control the permissible multitude of Poles.