On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 09:21:54AM -0700, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> If I have a perl script that creates the enum.h and a Javascript version
> (enum.js), I'm not sure how to handle this:
> > #if TAG_MAJOR_VERSION == 32
> > OBJ_UNKNOWN_I, // (use unknown) labeled as books in invent.cc
> {dlb}
> > #endif
>
> With the enum macro business, this #if is easily handled.
cpp enum.h
> Also, if I send the strings instead of the numbers the Javascript side
> doesn't need anything from enum.h. It will just use the strings directly
> (e.g. if(item.base_type = 'OBJ_WEAPON')). Only one file (jsclient.cc)
> needs to double include the .h file since everyone else just needs the
> standard enum.h. All of the non-jsclient files do not need to change.
So even using the preprocessor is not required.
> I concede there is a readability issue, but even if I have a enum-data.txt
> file that I parse with a perl script, there is a minor readability issue and
> a minor maintainability issue (.txt and .pl files to create a single .h).
A separate text file is not required, it's trivial to parse enum syntax.
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