If you need instances, that sounds more like seale...
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Shawn
11/12/2018, 4:04 PMIf you need instances, that sounds more like sealed classes than enums
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nestserau
11/12/2018, 4:05 PMI don’t need instances per se, but that’s how enum entries are represented in Kotlin anyhow.
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Shawn
11/12/2018, 4:13 PMI’m kinda just asking for my own benefit at this point, but I’m curious what the use case is for an interface that mandates classes themselves provide a method but not the class instances
Shawn
11/12/2018, 4:13 PMassuming I’m interpreting the problem correctly - that you want, for example, your own
DayOfWeekfromInt()Shawn
11/12/2018, 4:15 PMlike do you plan on operating on collections of these types?
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karelpeeters
11/12/2018, 4:42 PMIt's pretty easy to write function like this btw, just have a parameter in the enum constructor and then in the companion object
fun fromInt(int: Int) = MyEnum.values.first { it.day == int }➕ 1
karelpeeters
11/12/2018, 4:42 PMBut that's not generic of course.
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nestserau
11/13/2018, 7:58 AM@Shawn This is correct.