Marco van de Voort wrote:
Sparse enums are simply a kludge. They were needed because they exist in the Windows API, and afaik for that only. IOW for easy translation of Windows types.
They were added to Delphi in version 6. I though they added them to support Qt and the CLX, which relied on Qt as its underlying base toolkit. They were common in C/C++ before that though.
The problem I always had with Pascal supporting them was that a Pascal enum was designed to represents the position in a sequence and not necessarily an underlying integral value - where as a sparse enum is simply a grouping for a bunch of numerical values at the whim of the developer.
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