Why we can't have “char” enum types

Question

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 defau

Answer 1

Character enums would simply be strings wouldn't they? I'm not sure what other benefit you would derive from a character enumeration?

As others have said, the default type is int for an enumeration.