ziglings/35_enums.zig

//
// Remember that little mathematical virtual machine we made using the
// "unreachable" statement?  Well, there were two problems with the
// way we were using op codes:
//
//   1. Having to remember op codes by number is no good.
//   2. We had to use "unreachable" because Zig had no way of knowing
//      how many valid op codes there were.
// 
// An "enum" is a Zig construct that lets you give names to numeric
// values and store them in a set. They look a lot like error sets:
//
//     const Fruit = enum{ apple, pear, orange };
//
//     const my_fruit = Fruit.apple;
//
// Let's use an enum in place of the numbers we were using in the
// previous version!
// 
const std = @import("std");

// Please complete the enum!
const Ops = enum{ ??? };

pub fn main() void {
    const operations = [_]Ops{
        Ops.inc,
        Ops.inc,
        Ops.inc,
        Ops.pow,
        Ops.dec,
        Ops.dec
    };

    var current_value: u32 = 0;

    for (operations) |op| {
        switch (op) {
            Ops.inc  => { current_value += 1; },
            Ops.dec  => { current_value -= 1; },
            Ops.pow  => { current_value *= current_value; },
            // No "else" needed! Why is that?
        }

        std.debug.print("{} ", .{current_value});
    }

    std.debug.print("\n", .{});
}