I want to know why we can’t have ‘char’ as underlying enum type. As we have byte,sbyte,int,uint,long,ulong,short,ushort as underlying enum type. Second what is the default underlying type of an enum?
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I want to know why we can’t have ‘char’ as underlying enum type. As we have byte,sbyte,int,uint,long,ulong,short,ushort as underlying enum type. Second what is the default underlying type of an enum?
The default type is int. More information at the C# reference at MSDN. You can also find a link to the C# language specification at MSDN. I think the reason for the restriction probably derives from these statements in the language specification, section 4.1.5.