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string enums: Infer default value from key #36319
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string enum
default value
initializer
infer
Suggestion
Add syntactic sugar to string enum declarations to infer their values from their key names. The overwhelming majority of string enum values are identical or near-identical to their key names, and it's kludgy to list every reserved value twice in its declaration.
enum<string> Foo {
A,
B,
...,
Y = 'LegacyOverrideYValue',
Z,
LongAndSimilarEnumName,
LongUnsimilarEnumName,
}
// instead of
enum Foo {
A = 'A',
B = 'B',
...,
Y = 'LegacyOverrideYValue',
Z = 'Z',
LongAndSimilarEnumName = 'LongAndSimilarEnumName',
LongUnsimilarEnumName = 'LongUnSimilarEnumName',
}
// which contains a sneaky bug
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AnyhowStep commentedon Jan 20, 2020
#16464