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Re: Enum? A better enum for EUPHORIA

• Posted by Jeremy Cowgar <jeremy at cowg?r.com> May 15, 2008
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Shawn Pringle wrote:
> 
> Instead of enum as it is from C.  We can vastly improve on 
> enum.  Consider labeling a group of constants in an enum statement
> 
> enum memory_protection MEM_WRITEREAD = #40, MEM_READ = #80, ...
> 
> 
> puts(1, memory_protection.to_string( #40 )) -- displays "MEM_WRITEREAD"
> 
> 
> enum bitfield linux_memory_protection PROT_NONE = 0, 
> PROT_READ = 1, 
> PROT_WRITE = 2, PROT_EXEC = 4
> 
> puts( 1, linux_memory_protection.to_string( 3 ) ) -- displays "or_bits(
> PROT_READ,
> PROT_WRITE )"

Do you want var names stored in translated and IL code? How would that be
helpful? Also, it seems that the enum would create a namespace that would then
have to be tracked, parsed and looked up? I'm a bit confused at what this
accomplishes, can you expand a bit. I am all for better things.

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Jeremy Cowgar
http://jeremy.cowgar.com