Syntactic sugar for contextual enum values

eladb commented 11 months ago

Feature Spec

Wherever an enum value is expected in Wing code (e.g. as the first argument of the foo function or the bar variable):

enum MyEnum {
  MY_MEMBER,
  YOUR_MEMBER,
}

let foo = (e: MyEnum) => {};
let bar: e: MyEnum;

You can either use the fully qualified member name:

foo(MyEnum.MY_MEMBER);

if bar == MyEnum.YOUR_MEMBER {
  // ...
}

Or you can use a sugar notation:

foo(.MY_MEMBER)

if bar == .YOUR_MEMBER { ... }

Inspired from Swift.

Use Cases

Make it easier to reference a member enum in context.

Implementation Notes

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Component

Language Design, Compiler

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