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Everything you need to know about Enum with Flutter and Dart (lyabs.hashnode.dev)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Here's a nice simple article explaining enhanced enums that have been around for a while but may be something overlooked. Between these and sealed classes I think Dart has an excellent story for pattern matching.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I've yet to find a single use case for enhanced enums. It also doesn’t help that freezed doesn’t support them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

How exactly does freezed not support them? All data on an enhanced enum is static.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Maybe the code generator? I have no idea. It seems like there shouldn’t be an issue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Freezed generates sealed classes, not enums.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’m not sure enhanced enums do what you think they do if you expect freezed to generate anything for them besides what json_serializable generates for regular enums

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The whole point of the discussion is that enhanced enums don't do anything in practice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Instead of writing verbose extensions and functions all over the place you can use enhanced enums. I mean what else are they supposed to do?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Prior to sealed classes, I wished they were more like swift enums that could carry dynamic data and have different associated types per case. Now if I want that, I can do that with a sealed class. It’s still nice to have smarter enums if I need a little extra smarts and want to keep the logic close to the enum.