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General programming languages theory question, is one supposed to iterate over enum entries or is that considered an antipattern? I have found myself needing to

• panstromek 2y ago
  I wouldn't say it's an antipattern. E.g. listing all possible values of some user input field is a pretty natural use case for that.
• williamdclt 2y ago
  No that’s fine and a reasonable thing to do . In fact, I’d say it is one of the main points of enums and one of my biggest gripes against Go is the lack of that capability
  • floydnoel 2y ago
    Swift can't handle it either, I had to write an extension to add that ability. Felt weird to me.
    • DanielHB 2y ago
      Yeah which is why I originally asked, some other languages don't really have a way to iterate over enums.