Stringy

A tiny Rust crate for generating byte-sized enums that represent a fixed, ordered set of &str data.

The original motivation for this crate came up while handwriting lexers and parsers.

Features

• No more boilerplate for associating enums with fixed string literals
• Encapsulate a set of string literals as their own type
• Each generated enum has a size of only 1 byte
• Each generated enum defines a total order on its variants (based on blanket implementation of derived Ord trait) and exposes an interface to iterate across all variants in this order.
• Generated data comes with modest documentation. In particular, enum variants and relevant associated methods include user-provided data