Supercharge Your Enums
It's easy with this one little trick!
I was recently talking with someone on Twitter about looking back at my old Java code. I don't miss writing Java (there's a good reason I decided to specialize in the .NET stack a decade ago), but there are a couple aspects of the language that I do remember fondly. The way enum types in Java can be more than just atomic values has always struck me as kind of cool. I've found use cases over the years where I wish C# has something similar. I've solved this need in a variety of ways, and I'll show you one of my favorites here for it's simplicity.
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