OpenEuphoria

Re: Enum?

• Posted by gshingles <gshingles at gmail.c?m> May 16, 2008
• 764 views

Derek Parnell wrote:
> The tokens I propose are these below ... (but please feel free to come up with
> better ones) 
> (1) enum:length
> (2) enum:min
> (3) enum:max
> 
> When used in an enumeration declaration, they do not themselves become values
> in the enumeration.
> 
> Example:
> 
> }}}
<eucode>
> enum
>    FILE_NO,
>    LINE_NO,
>    FILE_PTR,
>    FILE_START_SYM,
>    OP_WARNING=-1,
>    OP_TRACE=-2,
>    OP_TYPE_CHECK=0,
>    OP_PROFILE_TIME=18,
>    OP_PROFILE_STATEMENT=3,
>    OP_DEFINES=9,
>    minFILE=enum:min,   -- lowest enumeration value
>    maxFILE=enum:max,   -- highest enumeration value
>    lenFILE=enum:length -- count of items in THIS enumeration
> </eucode>
{{{


Yep. Looks good, if a bit wordy. 
Isn't ':' for namespaces, or did that become '.' last week?
If it is ':' you might have to do a bit of gymnastics in case you have a
namespace 'enum' ?

I'm for whatever works though and provides the most features with the least
barriers to speedy implementation.

Gary