Enumerations are structures which resemble classes but differ from them in that in the enum body we can declare only constants. A variety of logically connected constants can be linked by means of language. These language constructs are the so-called enumerated types.… Read more
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Sunday, July 16th, 2017Constants
Saturday, July 1st, 2017Just 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:
- constants for which the value is set during the compilation (compile time constants)
- constants which have their value set during the execution (run-time constants)
Compile time constants are declared using the C# modifier const:
[<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
