Enums in Scilab
Our enum type ServerState
has an underlying int
type.
The possible values for ServerState
are defined as constants. Scilab uses predefined values to represent these states.
By implementing a simple map function, values of ServerState
can be printed out or converted to strings.
If we have a value of type int
, we use predefined mappings, which provides some degree of compile-time type safety.
transition
emulates a state transition for a server; it takes the existing state and returns a new state.
Running the Scilab script emulates the behavior as described.
With this approach, you have a basic implementation of an enum-like feature using constants in Scilab.