> Modern enums in languages with powerful compilers are one of my favourite features and I repeatedly find them to be a marker of high quality codebases. Mega

> Modern enums in languages with powerful compilers are one of my favourite features and I repeatedly find them to be a marker of high quality codebases. Mega +1. I LOLed when I saw the post. My favorite feature of enums is that you limit the set of values - and thus get a lot of free checks. Not to mention being able to write case statements without default - which catches future bugs (C++).