Most programmers use enums just so they can enforce a predefined set of options from which users can chose. However, enums have one major disadvantage: they can only hold one value at a time. Let’s say we have the following code:
In this case, specifying that we want to have a direction towards left seems OK.… Read more
Just like constants in mathematics, C# defines special fields of classes called constants. Like their name hints, once declared and initialized, constants maintain their values, forbidding their further modification.
There are two types of constants:
Compile time constants are declared using the C# modifier const:
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[<access_modifiers>] const <type> <name>; |
A secret not many C# programmers know is that compile time constants are static fields, even if they do not contain the static keyword, and the compiler forbids its usage in the declaration.… Read more
