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I see this suggested all the time as though it’s supposed to be a replacement. It isn’t sufficient, it’s a poor emulation of what enums can be used for and doesn’t offer the same protections, since Status can be set to any integer value without casting or any knowledge that it’s broken.

In your suggested method it doesn’t even catch that case and provide an error if the value isn’t in the range.

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It seems like none of the other comments here use or are even aware of `go generate`. Go has excellent code generation features [1].

I think parent should be using `stringer` [2] instead.

1: https://go.dev/blog/generate

2: https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/tools/cmd/stringer

I'm well aware of Stringer but I don't again think it's a good replacement of having enums built in!

> I don't again think it's a good replacement of having enums built in!

I didn't say anything along those lines, in fact I was commenting generally about this issue that you guys and the other commenters mentioned.

I was just suggesting a solution to the the problem stated.

"We don't want a solution! We want to complain about what we are used to and dont have!"

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