[Mono-devel-list] Re: Fixes to XSLT

[Andrew Skiba]

Atsushi Eno wrote:

>> Hm, MonoDevelop then has to solve this problem somehow. What will 
>> happen if a user defines her own enum where few members have an equal 
>> value? Then you must go further and forbid such enum members in the 
>> language like you forbid duplicated cases in switch statement.
> 
> Is there such an enumeration type which is not buggy?
> 

Citation from C# language standard 
http://www.dina.dk/~sestoft/ecma/CSharpStandard-June2004Draft.pdf

21.3 Enum members

...

Multiple enum members can share the same associated value. [Example: The 
example
	enum
	{
		Red,
		Green,
		Blue,
		Max = Blue
	}
shows an enum that has two enum members—Blue and Max—that have the same 
associated value.
example]

Regards,
Andrew Skiba