what are reasons to use enum classes instead of se...
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Hullaballoonatic
05/20/2019, 6:53 PMwhat are reasons to use enum classes instead of sealed class? so far, i know that:
*enums are simpler syntax
*enums have a (final😡) name property
*enums have ordinals
Are sealed classes more space and time costly? Should I avoid using them over enums if all i want is to define the name property myself?
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thana
05/20/2019, 7:07 PMyou can instantiate sealed classes but you cannot instantiate enums
thana
05/20/2019, 7:08 PMso if you do not want to instiate them you should use enums. if you want to make instance you cannot use enums
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Hullaballoonatic
05/20/2019, 7:08 PMokay so what if you're only extending the sealed class with objects?
Hullaballoonatic
05/20/2019, 7:08 PMthen you should for no reason use a sealed class?
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thana
05/20/2019, 7:10 PMi'd guess that they are slightly more performant then `object`s of a sealed class. also enums also provide an implementation of
Comperablethana
05/20/2019, 7:10 PMi don't see a reason to not use an enum, if you could
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Hullaballoonatic
05/20/2019, 7:10 PMyeah, due to having ordinals
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escodro
05/20/2019, 7:24 PMI really like that they can have different parameters in the constructor. For some states, it helps a lot. 🙂
https://github.com/igorescodro/alkaa/commit/332731a897e6f6fdb9cd685a51f7574e1c6252af#diff-b223a26e0867290ee4ae8eb2cd228c49R28
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