[swift-evolution] [Proposal] Enums with stored properties

[Kevin Nattinger]

I agree wholeheartedly. An enum case should be a compile-time constant.  IMO, “enums” with associated values should properly be a separate entity, called “union” as that’s essentially what they are. 

> On Oct 10, 2016, at 10:31 AM, Kenny Leung via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> This is the way Java enumerations work. 
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> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/enum.html
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> I think it is a good model, and I think Swift enumerations should also work the same way.
> 
> An enumeration is a finite set of things. It’s really inconvenient to have to limit those things to have only a single attribute.
> 
> -Kenny
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