@danscode/enum v1.0.3
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This here is a relatively small and simple model of what a javascript enum could be.
I'm unaware of any edge cases. Need help with testing in a real environment.
I don't write compiler code so I had to cobble together a system that would do the compilers job, out of available javascript mechanisms.
This model is technically functional but ideally I would want to see most of the work and sugar syntax done by a runtime/typescript compiler.
I would honestly like to pitch this to the typescript team, however I have no idea how to do that.
Contact me if you think this works much better than their enums, and I'll explain it in more detail.
I have borrowed some sensible design decisions from other languages, and I hope I got it right.
The enums come in several flavors:
- C# enum, an object listing of named constants, each associated with a hidden integer value
- usually the compiler would replace all references to enum fields with corresponding integers
- C#
[Flags]enum, similar to C#, but in my model it forces the enum to have bit specific fields - Rust enum, a symbolic enum
- an enum that when declared acts as a namespace of predefined constructors
- fields in this kind of enum can represent simple and complex values (like objects or integers) or act as unique constants
- you can create new
EnumVariantinstances that will follow the structure defined in the enum field - comes with a pattern matching function
- this flavor was the most painfully complicated one and probably has the most bugs
Also all Enum and EnumVariant instances should be immutable
Authors
- Dan: Code