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> That's not a type.

Nobody said it was. Reaching already? As before, enums are not a type, they are a numbering mechanism. Literally. There is an associated type in which to hold the numbers, but that's not the enum itself. This is true in both C and Go, along with every other language with enums under the sun.

> The compiler can tell the difference between `enum daysOfWeek` and `enum monthsOfYear`.

Sure, just as in Go:

    type Day int
    const (
        Monday Day = iota
        Tuesday
        // ...
    )

    type Month int
    const (
        January Month = iota
        February
        // ...
    )

    func month(m Month) {}
    func main() {
        month(January) // OK
        month(Monday)  // Compiler error
    }

> Go doesn't store this difference - `Monday` is no different in type than `January`.

Are you, perhaps, mixing up Go with Javascript?

> How can it?

By, uh, using its type system...? A novel concept, I know.