Oddbean new post about login | logout Naming things is one of the notorious "hard problems with computer science". Using numbers allows us to have a referent without interpretation, avoiding a lot of bikeshedding and confusion.
it's also easy to just make your own lexicon anyway, that's what i've done, i have a whole data structure with name/number/symbols bound together and reverse lookups so you can go the other way, easily create a printable version of the number the question is silly because an enum scheme would mean fighting over the human readable forms and there's just no reason for that, it's irrelevant