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Enum (also enumeration) is a data type consisting of a set of named values called elements, members or enumerators of the type. The enumerator names are usually identifiers that behave as constants in the language, and are often predefined with an implied ordering.

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I'm running into issues with an approach I am taking and am now wondering if I just started down the wrong path and should rethink my approach. Here is what I attempting. I would like to use an Enum ...
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I'm working on a Java library for sorts for Magic: the Gathering. Well, without going into a lot of detail, in the game there are five different colors of magic: white, blue, black, red, and green. ...
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In most popular programming languages like Java and C# there is a way to define enums, which are essentially datatypes with a fixed set of values, e.g. DayOfWeek. The problem is, given a value, e.g. ...
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I am working on a project where there will be plenty of static options being stored in the database. I looked at using Enums for this, but do not see how they could be useful. They do not create any ...
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Suppose in a manufacturing environment, there are certain stock materials available for use in a product. For example, there are only a few different sizes of copper tube, each having a specific ...
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I often use enum types in my code with a switch to apply logic to each type. In these cases it's important that each enum has code implemented. For example; public enum eERROR { REQUIRED, ...
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What are a few ways constants and enums are dealt with when creating an API Client? I'm writing a client in python for our API and I've hit a sticking point with this. We use a lot of mappings to ...
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Are the IETF BCP 47 language tags defined as enums anywhere in JDK? For Locale.forLanguageTag() we pass values like fr-FR, jp-JP etc. Are there any enums already provided by JDK for it? Or should ...
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I have my enum like this. enum Size{PAGE_SIZE=20, HEADER_SIZE=30 }; I only use them as constants(No enum variable created) in my program. i.e= int x = PAGE_SIZE + 20; So what is the better ...
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I am working on a simple API that I want to use for my own client, and to open to the public in the future. I have "Item" objects which can have different "types". The type is a C &...
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I was recently told that using Enum: public enum TaskEndState { Error, Completed, Running } may have compatibility/serialization issues, and thus sometimes it's better to use const string: public ...
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I have AS3/PHP background and some basic understaning of enums from C++. Saying shortly: I read this: http://haxe.org/ref/enums http://haxe.org/doc/cross/more_on_enum And though - good heavens! ...
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Enumerations1 are often associated with procedural code rather than object-oriented code. They tend to give rise to similar switch statements scattered through the code, and in general, these are ...
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Does an in-code enumeration provide a stronger domain model than a static database table? As an example, say I have an Marble entity, with a Color attribute. The color attribute has a finite set of ...
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I just have read some stuff on enum today. Use of flags with enum was something interesting and new for me. But often practice and theoretical uses are different. I go through many articles they ...
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I was reading this article: Designing Flags Enumerations @ msdn and it says Combining flags enumeration values is an intermediate skill that should not be required for developers implementing common ...
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An enum X : int (C#) or enum class X : int (C++11) is a type that has a hidden inner field of int that can hold any value. In addition, a number of predefined constants of X are defined on the enum. ...
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I've come across a recurring issue in a few of my recent projects in which I find myself using enums to represent state, or type, or something else, and I need to check against a few conditions. Some ...
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I'm writing a simple chess-related code with intention to write it clearly (performance doesn't matter at all). And this method I have doesn't look clean to me at all: public static Piece ...
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This question is asked on SO and this site often it looks like. "How do I do a dynamic enum?" Answers range from you shouldn't to possible compile time solutions. Now my question is do I want a ...
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Traditionally, a singleton is usually implemented as public class Foo1 { private static final Foo1 INSTANCE = new Foo1(); public static Foo1 getInstance(){ return INSTANCE; } private ...
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I'm an aspiring game developer, I work on occasional indie games, and for a while I've been doing something which seemed like a bad practice at first, but I really want to get an answer from some ...
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I'm making a program that will post data to a database, and I've run into a pattern that I'm sure is familiar: A short table of most-likely (very strongly likely) fixed values that serve as an enum. ...
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I need to define enums in several classes. The majority of fields are the same in all of the enums. But one has one or two more fields, another has fewer fields. Now I wonder what is the best way to ...
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I have a database table containing a list of systems relevant to the tool I am building, mostly in-house applications, or third-party systems we receive data from. This table is added to infrequently, ...
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I have an enumeration with the commands Play, Stop and Pause for a media player. In two classes I do a switch-case over the received commands. The player runs in a different thread and I deliver the ...
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What is the best practice for packaging Java enums? is it separate file for each enum? or having same file for all the enums? What are the pros and cons ?
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I wrote a little app to manage an arbitrary series of tasks (e.g., call a SQL sproc and capture out-vars, run another app, run an SSIS package) with dependencies between tasks. Each task has a status ...
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I stumbled upon this question and a couple of other along the same lines. While we know creation of enum is thread safe and enums are by birth singletons . It kind of confuses me that why would ...
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If I'm using a switch statement to handle values from an enum (which is owned by my class) and I have a case for each possible value - is it worth adding code to handle the "default" case? enum ...
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I would like to know how I can use a switch statement with enum values for the following scenarios: I am making a small program for a flight reservation system. The program is meant to enter certain ...
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Which is the currently-accepted best practice in terms of C# enum usage, a bitwise [Flags] Enum (compared using | and &) or an IEnumerable of enum values? I'm thinking both from a code-conciseness ...
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I have this weird scenario in which some Java property is used to build and HQL query, and the type of the field is Boolean, i.e. it is boxed. I wondered why because I don't really like to think of ...
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I have seen C code where people used enum heavily. But all it does is confuse others. In many places plain integers can do the same thing with less ambiguity. What are the common misuses of enum?
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