Should nested classes in an Enum be Enum members?
Cameron Simpson
cs at cskk.id.au
Fri Jun 29 19:02:37 EDT 2018
On 29Jun2018 10:36, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>On 06/28/2018 10:52 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 18:33:31 -0700, Ethan Furman wrote:
>>>Perhaps I am using Enum incorrectly, but here is my FederalHoliday Enum.
>>> Note that date(), next_business_day, and year() are all callables. The
>>>AutoEnum parent assigns values from 1 to n for each member. It's at
>>>Stackoverflow [1] if you'd like up- or down-vote it. ;)
>>
>>It isn't clear to me why FederalHoliday is an Enum, especially as the API
>>seems extremely baraque.
>
>Huh. I had to look that word up, and I still don't know what you
>meant exactly, although I suspect it wasn't complimentary. ;-)
It tends to mean "weird", but perhaps a more nuanced phrasing might be unusual
and strange, and usually connotes some degree of over complication.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>
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