News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Compile-time safety for enumerations in Go. Parent comment

Re:Compile-time safety for enumerations in Go by kiitos on Saturday September 30, 2023 @12:03AM (#37712681)
It literally isn't enforced by the compiler, because I can compile code which is invalid.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Compile-time safety for enumerations in Go by gabereiser on Monday October 02, 2023 @08:58AM (#37737486)
It’s not invalid because a string is a string. You didn’t invent a new type.
[ Parent | on HN ]