A data type consisting of a set of named values called elements, members or enumerators of the type.
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How can an Enumeration with Descriptions be cast into a Dictionary?
The Enumeration in question is based on int, so the following Extension returns a Dictionary<int, string> of the Enum's Value and Description.
Is there a cleaner way of implementing this?
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Boolean enums: improved clarity or just overkill?
Suppose we are writing a GUI toolkit in C++ (though this question may also apply to other languages). We have a button class with a member function hide, which hides the button. This member function ...
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Boolean flags encoded as integer implemented with EnumSet
I'm a beginner in Java so I would appreciate a review of following simple class - in fact it's my first real usage of enums.
The background: I'm parsing MySQL internal client-server protocol. One of ...
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Enum vs int wrapper struct
I am writing code that has objects having integer member variables where the integer value has a specific constant meaning, which normally means "use an enum".
Suppose the values are the days of the ...
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Scala Direction enum with Enumeration and collection usage
I've just implement direction enum
object Direction extends Enumeration {
type Direction = Value
val Up, Right, Down, Left = Value
val pairs = HashSet() ++ List((HashSet() ++ List(Up, Down)), ...
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Getting the value of a custom attribute from an enum
Suppose we have an enum called "Planet" and it has a custom attribute of class "PlanetAttr",
these methods will give you the attribute value for a given Planet value:
private static PlanetAttr ...
