Pieter-Jan Briers added the comment:
I suppose it may be an implementation detail, though I wouldn't be amazed that
had enum existed when re was written it'd have been used instead of constant
integers at the time. Though I do suppose exposing it fully would add two ways
to get
New submission from Pieter-Jan Briers:
It exists and its flags are exported, but not the direct classes itself. This
seems inconsistent to me and fixing it would make things like using static
typing on it just a little bit easier.
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