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•Created by kanaizo on 8/11/2023 in #help

Naming convention question

So for context, for educational purposes (and only to learn), I'm trying to reconstruct the box packing system from my job. Now, I have a enum that contains all the different types of boxes, its called BoxType, and its inside of the Shipment (aka box) class. I want to have a BoxType property, and I feel like "BoxType" is also a good name for the property name, but as you could imagine, it says I'm not allowed to do this as the enum is already called "BoxType". And i thought "maybe lets put the b as lowercase", and now it gives me a warning that there's a naming convention issue, and that it should start with a B. Now I know this doesn't matter, but I'm trying to learn best practices for the future. What's the right way to do this? I might suck at explaining stuff, but here's what I mean.

class Shipment
{
  // here below
  BoxType BoxType = BoxType.Unknown

  enum BoxType
  {
    Unknown
    SizeOne,
    SizeTwo
  }
}

class Shipment
{
  // here below
  BoxType BoxType = BoxType.Unknown

  enum BoxType
  {
    Unknown
    SizeOne,
    SizeTwo
  }
}

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