From 5561605594470856524 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,ccb40040597f37a7 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-06 10:33:50 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!news.mailgate.org!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!kibo.news.demon.net!mutlu.news.demon.net!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!devnull From: hyrosen@mail.com (Hyman Rosen) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Extending enums (was Re: Forward declaration of enum) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 18:33:49 +0000 (UTC) Organization: KBC Financial Products Lines: 13 Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++) Message-ID: <1046958860.572715@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 1046975629 11074 10.0.0.1 (6 Mar 2003 18:33:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 18:33:49 +0000 (UTC) X-Received: from mulga.cs.mu.oz.au ([128.250.1.22]) by news.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18r0Bf-0002sT-00 for mail2news@news.news.demon.net; Thu, 06 Mar 2003 18:33:47 +0000 X-Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU id FAA02410; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 05:33:43 +1100 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Path: comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-Delivered-To: std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu X-User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030302 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ X-Cache-Post-Path: master.nyc.kbcfp.com!unknown@fixedcost.nyc.kbcfp.com X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-MailScanner: PASSED (v1.2.7 73338 h26DsNuF078199 mailbox1.ucsd.edu) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-11.3 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,NOSPAM_INC,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA, X_ACCEPT_LANG version=2.41 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:18205 Lawrence Rust wrote: > Wouldn't it be more logical to use inheritance? Then one could write: > enum highcolors: public lowcolors { pink, magenta, cyan }; This is backwards from normal inheritance - you can use the "base" enum wherever the "derived" enum is required, but not vice versa. --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.jamesd.demon.co.uk/csc/faq.html ]