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> the thing about enumeration is you can ensure that you do an exhaustive handling of all cases in a switch statement.

You’re thinking of sum types, or at least something like what Pascal has which is a variant on sum types only with support for integer tags.

That’s not a property of enumeration. Enumeration is simply about numbering. Literally the dictionary definition.




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