Enumerations in ABAP?

I am new to ABAP and have come from several years of C# development. I don't see any way to create an enumeration in ABAP. What is the recommended method restricting input to a public attribute to a discrete set of values that can be checked at compile time?

I also tried creating a Domain and then creating an attribute of that type on a class thinking that setting the attribute to something not in the domain list would cause an error but, alas, it did not. Could you use Domains to restrict input to an attribute or am I delusional?
Also, on an unrelated issue, when ABAP says "line type" or "line" is that just another way of saying "row"/"row-type", at least when referring to tables?

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[code]
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[/code]
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Robin:
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