enums with char values

[fregas]

Other Mono/.NET languages like C# allow enums to have a char data type instead of ints. Would be nice to do the same for Boo, or any other data types that are typical.

[masonwheeler]

That's interesting. I'd never heard of this before.

I just checked it out in C#, and it builds, but when I opened it in ILDasm, the enum field in question was typed as int32, not char, with its value being the ordinal value of the char. Seems like this is just the C# compiler magically making chars equal to ints, which kind of surprises me because I thought that that was one of the (many!) old, ugly C-isms that C# did away with.

Is there a particular use case here?

[fregas]

Yeah it may just be syntax sugar C# is doing.

I use enums all the time. its nice because the value can be somewhat readable (a is for apple,b is for bannana,c is for cucumber, etc.) for different options or correlate to something besides an integer. In my case, I'm looking to convert an enum from C# to Boo in unity.