C Public Enums in Classes

Question

I have a program with a class that contains a public enum  as follows   public class Card       public enum card suits               Clubs          Hearts          Spades          Diamonds             I want to use this elsewhere in my project  but can t do that without using Card card suit   Does anyone know if there s a way in C  to declare this so that I am able to declare  card suits suit    Without referencing the class that it s in

User · Answer

Just declare the enum outside the bounds of the class. Like this:

public enum card_suits
{
    Clubs,
    Hearts,
    Spades,
    Diamonds
}

public class Card
{
    ...
}

Remember that an enum is a type. You might also consider putting the enum in its own file if it's going to be used by other classes. (You're programming a card game and the suit is a very important attribute of the card that, in well-structured code, will need to be accessible by a number of classes.)

User · Answer

You need to define the enum outside of the class   public enum card suits       Clubs      Hearts      Spades      Diamonds    public class Card                 That being said  you may also want to consider using the standard naming guidelines for Enums  which would be CardSuit instead of card suits  since Pascal Casing is suggested  and the enum is not marked with the FlagsAttribute  suggesting multiple values are appropriate in a single variable

User · Answer

Currently  your enum is nested inside of your Card class  All you have to do is move the definition of the enum out of the class      A better name which follows conventions instead of card suits is public enum CardSuit       Clubs      Hearts      Spades      Diamonds    public class Card       To Specify   The name change from card suits to CardSuit was suggested because Microsoft guidelines suggest Pascal Case for Enumerations and the singular form is more descriptive in this case  as a plural would suggest that you re storing multiple enumeration values by ORing them together

User · Answer

Just declare it outside class definition   If your namespace s name is X  you will be able to access the enum s values by X card suit  If you have not defined a namespace for this enum  just call them by  card suit Clubs etc

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