OpenEuphoria

Re: Enum?

• Posted by CChris <christian.cuvier at ?gr?culture.gouv.fr> May 15, 2008
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gshingles wrote:
> 
> Derek Parnell wrote:
> > }}}
<eucode>
> > enum
> >    FILE_NO,
> >    LINE_NO,
> >    FILE_PTR,
> >    FILE_START_SYM,
> >    OP_WARNING,
> >    OP_TRACE,
> >    OP_TYPE_CHECK,
> >    OP_PROFILE_TIME,
> >    OP_PROFILE_STATEMENT,
> >    OP_DEFINES,
> >    minFILE=^, -- first enumeration value
> >    maxFILE=$  -- last enumeration value
> > </eucode>
{{{

> 
> At first I didn't understand it, but after reading other proposals, I like
> this
> idea the best.
> 
> I was wondering how you would determine the range of an enum from one of its
> members
> but if I understand what you are proposing, the ^ and $ symbols are valid from
> the 
> start to the end of the enum statement.
> 
> This seems the simplest for a compile-time feature, however
> does the entry 'minFILE' count against the value of maxFILE? :)
> 
>   ie from your example above:
>       intent: minFILE = 1, maxFILE = 10
>       actual: minFILE = 1, maxFILE = 11 (because of minFILE)
>    
>   Maybe you could just store these in constants with ^ and $ available
>   until the next enum keyword is encountered? They would have to be better
>   named though because of $ being used for slices. eg enum_start, enum_end,
>   enum_count ?
> 
> But for the sake of not having to change 50 lines of code to insert a 'record'
> in a sequence I'm all for this change regardless.
> 
> Gary

Me too.

CChris