scala Enum

Jorge Ortiz @JorgeO

When I started at foursquare >1yr ago, I tried to get us off scala.Enumeration. Failure to do so coming back to bite me: http://t.co/y1pTtXQ

Kushal Dave @krave

@jorgeortiz85 What are we supposed to be using instead?

Jorge Ortiz @JorgeO

@krave Unclear. My preference is for sealed traits and case objects, but there's no feature parity (you get no "enumeration" of the values).

Jorge Ortiz @JorgeO

@krave I've heard some people just use Java Enums and keep those in .java source files. That would probably be the easiest/stablest bet.

Oliver Stewart @sintactic

@jorgeortiz85 @djspiewak is there a good alternative to Enumeration, or do you roll your own?

Jorge Ortiz @JorgeO

@sintactic @djspiewak No. My preference is sealed traits and case objects, but that lacks a key feature (an enumeration of the values).

Daniel Spiewak @djspiewak

@jorgeortiz85 @sintactic See @viktorklang. You can get the best of both worlds by adding values to a Vector in the trait constructor.

Lgd. Viktor Klang @viktorklang

@djspiewak @jorgeortiz85 @sintactic Here it is, also check the discussion below: http://t.co/XWlz652