What is a practical use of an enum?

Question

can any one tell me what situations an enum might be used for?

Answer 1

thanks I had a little Google in the mean time seems you can also use them for switch statements :) I'll do some further digging

Answer 2

https://code.sololearn.com/cfOVqkMn9NES/?ref=app

Answer 3

For example the result status from your application

enum Status {
OK, NOT_OK, ERROR
}

Answer 4

Keeping track of which direction a cubes' face points:
Enum Direction{north, south, east, west, top, bottom}

Answer 5

Imagine you have an application with three characters with different names and different actions. You may create an enum of names and then you may declarate a switch with the specific action for each character