Rough Proposal - Collection of all cases for an Enum

Rough proposal for implementing a method to get all cases on a enum. I feel like this is a valuable feature, and all current methods of doing this have major drawbacks. I'd like to field the idea to gauge interest.
Thank You,
Anthony Miller
Lead iOS Developer, App-Order.com <http://app-order.com/&gt;
Mobile: 702-334-8454
# Collection of all cases for an Enum

## Introduction
Add reflection capabilities for getting an `Array` or `Set` of all cases for an Enum.
This would not be supported for enums with associated values.
## Motivation
This feature provides a benefit for many use cases.
Multiple methods of doing this exist currently, however each has obvious drawbacks.
For an summary of current methods, see: swift - How to enumerate an enum with String type? - Stack Overflow
## Proposed solution

This could be implemented as a static function or static constant.
    enum Foo {
        case CaseOne, CaseTwo, CaseThree
    }
    
    let allCases: [Foo] = Foo.allCases() // [.CaseOne, .CaseTwo, .CaseThree]

Alternatively, an extension of `Mirror` to support mirrors of types could include this capability.

You should join your efforts to the "Enum 'count' functionality" <https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20151221/003819.html&gt; thread, where this is also being discussed.

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Le 23 déc. 2015 à 17:41:13, Anthony Miller via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org> a écrit :

Rough proposal for implementing a method to get all cases on a enum. I feel like this is a valuable feature, and all current methods of doing this have major drawbacks. I'd like to field the idea to gauge interest.
Thank You,
Anthony Miller
Lead iOS Developer, App-Order.com <http://app-order.com/&gt;
Mobile: 702-334-8454
# Collection of all cases for an Enum

## Introduction
Add reflection capabilities for getting an `Array` or `Set` of all cases for an Enum.
This would not be supported for enums with associated values.
## Motivation
This feature provides a benefit for many use cases.
Multiple methods of doing this exist currently, however each has obvious drawbacks.
For an summary of current methods, see: swift - How to enumerate an enum with String type? - Stack Overflow
## Proposed solution

This could be implemented as a static function or static constant.
    enum Foo {
        case CaseOne, CaseTwo, CaseThree
    }
    
    let allCases: [Foo] = Foo.allCases() // [.CaseOne, .CaseTwo, .CaseThree]

Alternatively, an extension of `Mirror` to support mirrors of types could include this capability.

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