Enumerations, often abbreviated by enum, are special class types that allow a limited number of constants to be represented. Why use an enum rather than a class? Enum makes it possible to represent a limited number of constants, allowing better reada...

Here’s a nice simple article explaining enhanced enums that have been around for a while but may be something overlooked. Between these and sealed classes I think Dart has an excellent story for pattern matching.

  • Rexios@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    How exactly does freezed not support them? All data on an enhanced enum is static.

      • Rexios@lemm.ee
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        11 months ago

        I’m not sure enhanced enums do what you think they do if you expect freezed to generate anything for them besides what json_serializable generates for regular enums

        • anlumo@feddit.deEnglish
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          11 months ago

          The whole point of the discussion is that enhanced enums don’t do anything in practice.

          • Problematic Consumer@lemmy.worldM
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            11 months ago

            Instead of writing verbose extensions and functions all over the place you can use enhanced enums. I mean what else are they supposed to do?