Toxe If they are global shouldn't print(Foo.red) then work?

They are accessible globally but name-wise they are guarded by class namespaces. In other words, you need to use the class name when accessing, but you can do it from anywhere, hence the access is global. In your example Enemy.Foo is a global enum.

Btw this is analogous with access to static class methods and properties. If you declare something static it becomes globally accessible via class namespace. In 3.x you can have static methods but no static properties. They neatly added this in v 4 so now we can have both, making the old autoload hack pretty much obsolete.

    7 months later

    I know this is an old topic but I made a benchmarker that can show you how much faster or slower using various types of variable references are: https://github.com/elvisish/ElvisishBenchmarker

    I usually keep enums in the same script for the reason that frequently (every frame) referencing singletons is much slower than a local script reference, but it might not be a big deal if you're only referencing them ocassionally.

    • xyz replied to this.

      elvisish What do you mean by "referencing singletons"?