> JE> This fails at compile-time:
> JE>
> JE> public enum MyEnum : short {
> JE> ValueOne = 0,
> JE> ValueTwo = 1,
> JE> }
> JE>
> JE> Console.WriteLine((MyEnum)Int32.MaxValue);
>
>What is exactly your point, here? C#'s short type is mapped to
>System.Int16. Surely 2^32 - 1 exeeds the range of an enumerated
>type that's backed up by a 16-bit integer.
>
> short n = (short) System.Int32.MaxValue;
>
>fails just as well.
My point was that this fails at compile-time:
public enum MyEnum : short {
ValueOne = 0,
ValueTwo = 1,
}
Console.WriteLine((MyEnum)Int32.MaxValue);
The point was to communicate a fact. I didn't say anything about
expecting otherwise. In retrospect all truth seems to be stating the
obvious. This comment seemed relevant to the question at hand, namely
why a cast to an enum didn't fail at compile time.
If you didn't know that you could specify the base types for your enums
this would be useful information. It's also nice to know that the
compiler will fail it at compile-time, which I wouldn't say was
immediately obvious or necessarily something that you'd just assume.
John.
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