Hello, this has been proposed multiple times before in different ways.
Link to detailed proposal draft:
https://github.com/gabriellanata/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/NNNN-allow-enumerating-cases-in-enumerations.md
It is currently not possible to enumerate through all the possible cases of
an enumeration object without adding a hardcoded value or recurring to
unsafe workarounds. The proposal is to add a method of obtaining an array
or set of all the possible cases natively for enumerations without
associated values.
The proposed solution is to implement a native `.cases` static var for all
enumerations without associated values. This would provide a strict
type-safe way of enumerating though the possible cases without risking
runtime errors. The resulting code is a lot cleaner and less prone to
errors caused by forgetting to update the hardcoded values when modifying
cases.
Resulting code:
enum PokemonType {
case Fire, Grass, Water, Wind
}
for pokemonType in PokemonType.cases {
// Do stuff
}
PokemonType.cases.count // Returns 4
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Gabriel
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