I have a set of enum values (let's call then ONE, TWO, THREE.....). I want to find the larger of two of them. But max(ONE,THREE) gives a compile error as MAX isn't defined for type-safe enums. Fair enough.

I also agree that one shouldn't be able to use arithmetic functions on enums.

But as Enum implements Comparable, one can write a function which implements max and min, rather inefficiently I assume.

Is there a better way of getting the max/min of an enum? And if not, can the Java team be persuaded to implement it?