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Matthew Foster
Matthew Foster
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Posted by Matthew Foster
Matthew Foster
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Why even bother typing out the rest of the enum options instead of just using default in the switch statement?

switch day { case Day.saturday, Day.sunday: return "Weekend" default: return "Weekday" }

instead of

switch day { case Day.saturday, Day.sunday: return "Weekend" case Day.monday, Day.tuesday, Day.wednesday, Day.thursday, Day.friday: return "Weekday" }

Seems like the latter is a lot of wasted work.

(This is related to this course https://teamtreehouse.com/library/modeling-finite-data not sure why it didn't link to it like the other questions asked...)

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Sarah Hurtgen
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Sarah Hurtgen
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Since the video you linked is one of the very first to introduce enums, my guess is that he was just trying to help give some initial practice of accessing the enum values before expounding on some of different ways you can write them. In the next video Getting rid of strings, he touches on "default" and refactors his code to look more like what you wrote in your first example!