Enums?

[Brendan Eich]

On Oct 1, 2011, at 4:13 AM, Axel Rauschmayer wrote:

> One language feature from JavaScript that I miss are enums. Would it make sense to have something similar for ECMAScript, e.g. via Lisp-style/Smalltalk-style symbols plus type inference? If yes, has this been discussed already? I feel strange when I simulate symbols with strings.

http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=proposals:enumeration_type
http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=proposals:switch_class
http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=discussion:switch_class
http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=discussion:switch_class#older_enum_proposal

All ES4-era, pretty musty.

/be


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