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Ruby enumerated list

Basic enumerated list in Ruby. Pass in a list of symbols. A constant is declared for each symbol and is initialized to an incremented integer value.

Use like this:
enum :FIRST, :SECOND, :THIRD

module Util
  # Basic enumerated list.
  def enum(*symbols)
    # Start out the count at 0.
    i = 0
    
    # Define a constant for each symbol in symbols, assigning it the current value
    # of i.
    symbols.each { |s| const_set(s, i);i += 1 }
  end  
end
to ruby enum enumeration util by petedragon on Aug 26, 2007
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