Re: Enums should implement Stringable interface by default

From: Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:11:58 +0000
Subject: Re: Enums should implement Stringable interface by default
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On 28/02/2025 08:33, Janis Kajaks wrote:

My suggestion is that all enums (both basic/pure and backed) should implement Stringable interface by default,



This has come up at least twice before:

* https://externals.io/message/118040
* https://externals.io/message/124991

These threads also touch on some of the same issues:

* https://externals.io/message/120121
* https://externals.io/message/123388

Fundamentally, there are different schools of thought on what an "enum" should be, which lead to different sets of features.

I think some of those differences are fundamental enough that you could only have both if the language had multiple enum-like things which the user could choose between.

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Rowan Tommins
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