Enumming

[Will Ware]

Larry Whitley (ldw at us.ibm.com) wrote:
> Here's my class of enums:
> class E:
>     a,b,c,d,e = range( 5 )

I have seen (and a few times recommended to others) the simpler
scheme of doing this in the global namespace, just typing:

a,b,c,d,e = range( 5 )

But I see that it's better to wrap it in a class as you've done,
to avoid the possibility of namespace collisions. Also the class
name can be used to meaningfully describe the enum values as a
group. So Volkswagen.BEETLE would be different from Insect.BEETLE.
Worth a little extra typing to avoid namespace clutter and gain
clarity.
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