Why use the Bitwise-Shift operator for values in a C enum definition?

Question

Apple sometimes uses the Bitwise-Shift operator in their enum definitions. For example, in the CGDirectDisplay.h file which is part of Core

Answer 1

New in C# 7 is finally adding binary literals, so you can just write it as this:

enum MyEnum
{
    kCGDisplayBeginConfigurationFlag  = 0b0000000000000001;
    kCGDisplayMovedFlag               = 0b0000000000000010;
    kCGDisplaySetMainFlag             = 0b0000000000000100;
    kCGDisplaySetModeFlag             = 0b0000000000001000;
    kCGDisplayAddFlag                 = 0b0000000000010000;
    kCGDisplayRemoveFlag              = 0b0000000000100000;
    kCGDisplayEnabledFlag             = 0b0000000001000000;
    kCGDisplayDisabledFlag            = 0b0000000010000000;
    kCGDisplayMirrorFlag              = 0b0000000100000000;
    kCGDisplayUnMirrorFlag            = 0b0000001000000000;
    kCGDisplayDesktopShapeChangedFlag = 0b0000010000000000;
};

And if you want to make things even neater, you use this: _ which is also new to C# 7, which allows you to put spaces in numbers to make things more readable, like so:

enum MyEnum
{
    kCGDisplayBeginConfigurationFlag  = 0b_0000_0000_0000_0001;
    kCGDisplayMovedFlag               = 0b_0000_0000_0000_0010;
    kCGDisplaySetMainFlag             = 0b_0000_0000_0000_0100;
    kCGDisplaySetModeFlag             = 0b_0000_0000_0000_1000;
    kCGDisplayAddFlag                 = 0b_0000_0000_0001_0000;
    kCGDisplayRemoveFlag              = 0b_0000_0000_0010_0000;
    kCGDisplayEnabledFlag             = 0b_0000_0000_0100_0000;
    kCGDisplayDisabledFlag            = 0b_0000_0000_1000_0000;
    kCGDisplayMirrorFlag              = 0b_0000_0001_0000_0000;
    kCGDisplayUnMirrorFlag            = 0b_0000_0010_0000_0000;
    kCGDisplayDesktopShapeChangedFlag = 0b_0000_0100_0000_0000;
};

Makes it so much easier to keep track of the numbers.

Answer 2

using #define is more understandable. but enum could group these value togater.