From -115145281032394802 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,ccb40040597f37a7 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-06 13:55:11 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!diablo.theplanet.net!kibo.news.demon.net!mutlu.news.demon.net!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!devnull From: kgwzamboni-news@zambonistiscan.com Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Extending enums (was Re: Forward declaration of enum) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 21:55:10 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Solution Technology Lines: 21 Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 1046987710 12361 10.0.0.1 (6 Mar 2003 21:55:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 21:55:10 +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 18r3KW-0003DE-00 for mail2news@news.news.demon.net; Thu, 06 Mar 2003 21:55:08 +0000 X-Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU id IAA12051; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 08:35:50 +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-Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ X-User-Agent: ProNews/2 V1.52.cp012 X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly. X-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 12:34:37 EST X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-8.9 required=5.0 tests=NOSPAM_INC,NO_REAL_NAME,REFERENCES,SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE, SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT version=2.41 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:18217 On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 16:45:34 UTC, nagle@animats.com (John Nagle) wrote: How about also making them more like real types. enum Color( Red, Orange, Yellow ); enum Fruit( Orange, Apple, Grapes ); Except when assigning them directly to ints, the compiler is capable of determining which Orange it is. For that case allow the cast like Color(Orange). Then dumb things like "Color x = Grapes;" would be flaged. -- Remove zamboni to reply. All the above is hearsay and the not quaranteed. --- [ 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 ]