Enums alternative in C#

While reading the following blog post(http://piotrgankiewicz.com/2017/01/09/async-http-api-and-service-bus/) I noticed this code snippet:

	public static class States
	{
	public static string Accepted => "accepted";
	public static string Processing => "processing";
	public static string Completed => "completed";
	public static string Rejected => "rejected";
	}

view raw StatesUsingExpressionBodiedFunctionMembers.cs hosted with ❤ by GitHub

This code is taking advantage of the Expression-bodied function members in C# 6. And although this is just a static class with some readonly properties I found it aesthecially pleasing and it looks like a useful (and more flexible) alternative to enums.

If you look at the syntax you had to use before, it just feels more like a normal class instead of an enum construct…

	public static class States
	{
	public static string Accepted
	{
	get { return "accepted";}
	}
	public static string Completed
	{
	get { return "completed";}
	}
	public static string Processing
	{
	get { return "processing";}
	}
	public static string Rejected
	{
	get { return "rejected";}
	}
	}

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An alternative approach would be using Getter-only auto-properties but it doesn’t feel the same as well…

	public static class States
	{
	public static string Accepted{get;} = "accepted";
	public static string Processing{get;} = "processing";
	public static string Completed{get;} = "completed";
	public static string Rejected{get;} = "rejected";
	}

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