Re: How to store an enum value as a corresponding integer?

Internally in a class I would like to store a value as integer value.
From outside of the class this value should be accessible as enumeration.

I am thinking about something like:

pubic class mycontainer {
   ....
   private int myvalue;
   public enum weekday { monday, tuesday, wednesday };

   public weekday getcurrentweekday() {
       return(positioninlist(myvalue)); }

   public void setcurrentweekday(weekday) {
        myvalue=positioninlist(weekday);
        }
   }

In the sample above 1 should be assigned to myvalue if monday is set as
weekday:

mycontainer.setcurrentweekday(mycontainer.weekday.monday);

However the core function positioninlist() is not available.

How can I achive this otherwise in detail?