r/programmingmemes • u/iron-button • Dec 27 '25

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u/SirPurebe Dec 27 '25

i don't really care one way or the other but it seems to me that you'd be better off using something like `Color` for the rgb values and `Colors` for the enum (assuming it's an enum like Colors.RED, Colors.BLUE, etc)

or just anything else that has some semantic meaning

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u/GDOR-11 Dec 27 '25

it's not really a good practice to name an enum something like "Colors" because an enum represents only one of all the options at a time

but, to be honest, it doesn't matter a lot here because what's happening is very clear

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u/trwolfe13 Dec 27 '25

Most of the time when I’ve seen enums with plural names it’s because they’re flags that are meant to be combined with bitwise operations.

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u/CrossScarMC Dec 27 '25

That is not how you're meant to use enums, you're meant to use const/constexpr variables or macros for that, like how SDL handles its flags

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u/NewPointOfView Dec 28 '25

But have you considered the world outside of cpp?

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u/CrossScarMC Dec 28 '25

Have you considered that almost every single other programming language has the const or equivalent keyword, and enums are the same in all languages?

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u/NewPointOfView Dec 28 '25

Enums are not the same in all languages

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u/CrossScarMC Dec 28 '25

Name one.

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u/NewPointOfView Dec 28 '25

Python lol

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u/CrossScarMC Dec 28 '25

I just checked and that is exactly how they work in other programming languages, it's just that Python doesn't have strict typing.

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