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08/02/2018, 5:54 PMwe need inline enums, please vote guys https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-23823
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karelpeeters
08/02/2018, 5:56 PMIt already has a target version so looks like it's accepted already?
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Markchous
08/02/2018, 6:07 PMWhat would the use case of an inline enum be? Is it just for convenience factor?
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karelpeeters
08/02/2018, 6:08 PMAnd out curiosity, is there a big performance difference? They are mostly compared and used by reference, so their class-like nature shouldn't really matter much.
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robstoll
08/02/2018, 6:43 PMHow would an inlined enum be represented? By their
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karelpeeters
08/02/2018, 6:45 PMThere's a bit about enums here: https://github.com/Kotlin/KEEP/issues/104
karelpeeters
08/02/2018, 6:45 PMBut probably ordinals, there's not much else to use.
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ankushg
08/02/2018, 9:41 PMDropped a comment in support. Here's my use case for inline enums: https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C0B8L3U69/p1533092140000170
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gildor
08/03/2018, 3:05 AMInline enums for JS is probably good idea.
We already had this discussion before, I still highly doubt that you can get any measurable performance gain comparing with Enums + EnumSet on JVM.
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elect
08/03/2018, 6:06 AM@karelpeeters, it looks like there is no definitive plan for inline enums, https://github.com/Kotlin/KEEP/issues/104#issuecomment-410010541
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