I picked up adding a few meta values to enums a long time ago; I feel they make bounds checking and writing for loops more readable. But gcc has been giving me some grief about it in one way, here's ...

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An enum is a value type. Value types in .Net are generally stored in the stack. You typically use enums to represent named constants in your application. There are two types of enums: simple enums and ...