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Re: Enum? A better enum for EUPHORIA

• Posted by Shawn Pringle <shawn.pringle at ??ail.com> May 15, 2008
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Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> --
> Jeremy Cowgar
> <a href="http://jeremy.cowgar.com">http://jeremy.cowgar.com</a>

This would help a lot in debugging or when there is an error condition, I will
print out an error but I am not likely to write out the strings for all of say
the Windows error constants.  This construct would save the programmer the
trouble
though.

Shawn Pringle