Compile-time safety for enumerations in Go

• exhaustive

  11 272 5.9 Go

  Check exhaustiveness of switch statements of enum-like constants in Go source code.

This is an analyzer that will catch this: https://github.com/nishanths/exhaustive

I believe it's in golangci-lint.

• go

  2,068 119,564 10.0 Go

  The Go programming language

  

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/57644

As stated in that proposal, the interaction between what people want from “enums,” “discriminated unions,” “sum types,” (as well as “optional values” and “nil safety”) and fundamental Go tenets like zero values, make this a tough sell, which is very likely to make no one happy.

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• go-enum-example

  3 6 3.9 Go

  Go Enum: benchmarks, examples, analysis

interesting approach! but I typically use this method for type constraints.

for enums I prefer just direct structs: https://github.com/nikolaydubina/go-enum-example

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