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In a C# enumeration, are there any negative side effects of using a negative number?
I am modelling response codes and one of the codes in negative. This compiles but I want to know if there are any negative side effects to this.
public enum ResponseCodes { InvalidServerUserPasswordCombo = -1, // etc. } 
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Enumeration or Enum in C is a special kind of data type defined by the user. It consists of constant integrals or integers that are given names by a user. The use of enum in C to name the integer values makes the entire program easy to learn, understand, and maintain by the same or even different programmer.
An enumeration, or Enum , is a symbolic name for a set of values. Enumerations are treated as data types, and you can use them to create sets of constants for use with variables and properties.
An enumeration is used in any programming language to define a constant set of values. For example, the days of the week can be defined as an enumeration and used anywhere in the program. In C#, the enumeration is defined with the help of the keyword 'enum'.
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negative side effects of using a negative number
Clearly, with any underlying signed type, any bitwise operations are going to get "interesting" very quickly.
But using an enum as a collection of related constants can quite happily use negative values.
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