Unique enum member values

Question

My problem: I want to specify a 1 to 1 connection between two enums. basically:

enum MyEnum{

    ENUM_VALUE_1,
    ENUM_VALUE_2,
    ENUM_VALUE_3,

}

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Answer 1

It sounds like you shouldn't implement this as a runtime check. It can only fail if a developer who has control over the code did some bad changes. Detecting changes that introduce bugs is what tests are for.

Write a simple test that checks if everything is correct. The other answers already provide some good solutions to check for duplicated enums. Instead of running the application to see if the enum initialisation fails, run the test (I hope you already write and run tests anyway).