Enumerations, often abbreviated by enum, are special class types that allow a limited number of constants to be represented. Why use an enum rather than a class? Enum makes it possible to represent a limited number of constants, allowing better reada...

Here’s a nice simple article explaining enhanced enums that have been around for a while but may be something overlooked. Between these and sealed classes I think Dart has an excellent story for pattern matching.

  • anlumo@feddit.deEnglish
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    9 months ago

    The whole point of the discussion is that enhanced enums don’t do anything in practice.

    • Problematic Consumer@lemmy.worldM
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      9 months ago

      Instead of writing verbose extensions and functions all over the place you can use enhanced enums. I mean what else are they supposed to do?