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diff --git a/exercises/035_enums.zig b/exercises/035_enums.zig new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1825f52 --- /dev/null +++ b/exercises/035_enums.zig @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +// +// 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", .{}); +} |