Chapter 6. Enumeration Types
Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye. | ||
| --Dorothy Parker, “Inventory” | ||
An enumeration type—sometimes known as an enumerated type, or more simply as an enum—is a type for which all values for the type are known when the type is defined. For example, an enum representing the suits in a deck of cards would have the possible values hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades; and an enum for the days of the week would have the values Monday, Tuesday, ...
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