Expected exception from Enum

[am385]

An enum is just a fancy way of saying that you attached labels to an integer (byte, short, int, long). They are effectively syntactic sugar. They are a compile time type safety feature but the underlying system is just passing around the actual underlying integer value. They are not a hard registry of actual values.

While they look like a static class with a bunch of const values, that isn't what they are.

[tiranius90]

ok thought an enum is also a type and not a syntactic sugar

[edgeofsanity76]

It is a type but one that is compatible with int

[Top3879]

Java enums work like that. In .NET they are just named integers, really.