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Re:Introducing Swift by solutionyogi on Monday June 02, 2014 @04:27PM (#7836113)
Enumerations (from: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...):

Unlike C and Objective-C, Swift enumeration members are not assigned a default integer value when they are created. In the CompassPoints example above, North, South, East and West do not implicitly equal 0, 1, 2 and 3. Instead, the different enumeration members are fully-fledged values in their own right, with an explicitly-defined type of CompassPoint.

+100 for that. This will help developer avoid whole class of bugs.

Enumerations also support associated values. Enums in .NET are very poorly defined. Looks like Swift got it right.

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Re:Introducing Swift by jevinskie on Monday June 02, 2014 @04:38PM (#7836194)
Indeed. Luckily C++11 took care of the issue on the C++ side.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C++11#Strongly_typed_enumeratio...

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Re:Introducing Swift by platz on Monday June 02, 2014 @06:03PM (#7836779)
Do Swift's enumerations allow recursive definitions?
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Re:Introducing Swift by oldguysrule on Sunday June 08, 2014 @04:16AM (#7864256)
>Unlike C and Objective-C, Swift enumeration members are not assigned a default integer value when they are created

Well that’s gonna make storing persistent values tricky.

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