OpenEuphoria

Re: Enum?

• Posted by Kat <KAT12 at coo?a?s.net> May 15, 2008
• 774 views

Alan F wrote:
> 
> Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
> > Etc... This is fine, but what if you want to add a new element and not at
> > the
> > end? I am sure we've all done it. Well, I borrowed a good thing from other
> > languages
> > called an enum (enumeration)... I've done the code already but have not
> > committed.
> > What do you think?
> > 
> > }}}
<eucode>
> > global enum D_NAME, D_ATTRIBUTES, D_SIZE, ...
> > global enum PERSON_NAME, PERSON_AGE=5, PERSON_DOB, PERSON_EMAIL
> > 
> > printf(1, "name=%d, attributes=%d, size=%d\n", {
> >     D_NAME, D_ATTRIBUTES, D_SIZE})
> > printf(1, "person_name=%d, age=%d, dob=%d, email=%d\n", {
> >     PERSON_NAME, PERSON_AGE, PERSON_DOB, PERSON_EMAIL})
> > 
> > -- name=1, attributes=2, size=3
> > -- person_name=1, age=5, dob=6, email=7
> > </eucode>
{{{

> > 
> > An enum is not a new type, it emits a constant. They can be local or global.
> > I think it has a lot of benefit but wanted to get community input.
> > 
> > --
> > Jeremy Cowgar
> > <a href="http://jeremy.cowgar.com">http://jeremy.cowgar.com</a>
> 
> I think this is a very good idea. This seems like a relatively safe change to
> make, as it only affects the front-end. With something like this in the
> language,
> I think we could stop worrying about how/whether to implement structures, as
> this
> pretty much takes care of that.

Static structures, yeas. Still, go for it, Jeremy!

Kat