> But they decided not to add enums because it conflicted and overlapped too much with interfaces. I'm very curious now about how it might conflict and/or over

> But they decided not to add enums because it conflicted and overlapped too much with interfaces. I'm very curious now about how it might conflict and/or overlap with interfaces. To reach the goal of an enumeration type (and all the strong type-checking that that brings with it), enums could look as simple as: type DayNames enum { Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday } ... func isFunDay (dow DayNames) { // This must fail to compile, because there is an unhandled enumeration switch { case Sunday: ... case Monday: ... case Tuesday: ... case Thursday: ... case Friday: ... case Saturday: ... } ... } ... isFunDay (0) // Compile failure var x int isFunDay (x) // Compile failure And I don't see how that conflicts or overlaps with interfaces.