Is it possible to have the enum ordinal in kotlin without explicitly calling ordinal?

Question

In C enums are all numeric and you can reference the value just by the name.

Example:

#include <stdio.h>

enum week { sunday, monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday };

int main()
{
    enum week today;
    today = wednesday;
    printf("Day %d",today+1);
    return 0;
}

Outputs: day 4

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In Kotlin I would like something similar, at least being able to get rid of the .ordinal.

Currently it's like this:

enum class Week { sunday, monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday }

and to access an element I have to use the verbose Week.monday.ordinal

Answer 1

Basically answer by @jrtapsell is great and full. But also in kotlin you can override invoke() operator.

enum class Weekday { MONDAY, TUESDAY;

    operator fun invoke(): Int {
       return ordinal
    }
}

fun main(args: Array<String>) {
    print("${Weekday.TUESDAY() + 1}")
}

Result: 2

AFM it is much prettier.