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Defines an enum class, demonstrates its constants, and stops short of broader enumeration design concerns.

Enum

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A type whose values are restricted to a finite set of named constants.

Use an enumeration when an attribute has a limited set of named values. For book genres, Genre replaces strings with constants such as ADVENTURE, CLASSICS, HORROR, and SCIFI. section 2.3.2

Compared with strings, an enumeration provides:

Compiler-detectable misspellings of named constants. section 2.3.2
Efficient run-time comparisons between known values. section 2.3.2

Book genres

A book can store Genre::ADVENTURE or Genre::CLASSICS instead of a genre string. A catalogue can then search for Genre::HORROR without handling capitalization or spelling variations.

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