ObjectSlots

The A_Tuple of expressions that should be considered to execute sequentially, discarding each result except for that of the first expression. There must be at least one expression. All expressions but the first must be typed as ⊤. The first one is also allowed to be typed as ⊤, but even if so, if the actual value produced is more specific (i.e., not nil, then that is what the first-of-sequence phrase's effective value will be.

In Java it was possible to define this interface in such a way that the name method was abstract and implemented by each specific Enum, but Kotlin breaks this mechanism. BUT – we're able to cast this to Enum to get to that field. I believe this code gets copied down into each specific Enum subclass, so the dynamic type check for the cast is trivially eliminated in each case. And worst case, Hotspot will be able to inline calls to this from sites that are known to be Enums.

In Java it was possible to define this interface in such a way that the ordinal() method was abstract and implemented by each specific Enum, but Kotlin breaks this mechanism. BUT – we're able to cast this to Enum to get to that field. I believe this code gets copied down into each specific Enum subclass, so the dynamic type check for the cast is trivially eliminated in each case. And worst case, Hotspot will be able to inline calls to this from sites that are known to be Enums.

Returns the enum constant of this type with the specified name. The string must match exactly an identifier used to declare an enum constant in this type. (Extraneous whitespace characters are not permitted.)

Returns an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they're declared.