The general rule we use is to prefix the enumerations with a code from the
name of the enumeration type.
TEnumType = (etVB, etDelphi, etC++, etC, etJava);
This usually gets around the problem of properties with same name.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neven MacEwan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, 23 February 2000 09:41
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: Re: [DUG]: VB Like Case statement
>
>
> Thanks Aaron
>
> But why isn't TEnumType = (VB,Delphi,C++,C,Java) valid?
>
> and would it be so hard?
>
> also I found that TEnumType = (Left,Right,Up,Down) was valid
>
> but
> case TEnumType(OrdVal)
> Left: ....; // error here as Left is property in scope of form
>
> end;
>
> This seems to be a scoping problem
>
> I'm not suggesting a total relax of rules (ie spaces in names
> ala SQL7)
> but it is frustrating that this is almost there but not really usable
>
> Regards
> Neven
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Aaron Scott-Boddendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, 22 February 2000 18:31
> Subject: Re: [DUG]: VB Like Case statement
>
>
> > > Maybe I should have put it on the wish list for D6!
> > > If they extended Delphi to allow more characters in
> enumerated type
> > > descriptions it would get past the
> > > old string/ordinal problem
> >
> > Their best solution to beat the 'ordinal type' limitation
> of the case
> statement
> > is to extend the compiler to produce parse trees using
> cascaded 'if-else'
> as
> > the non-ordinal implementation of case. Since delphi
> doesn't have the
> > fall-through case features of the C switch statement
> there's no semantic
> > difference - all case elements are required to be constants
> so there's no
> issue
> > with order of evaluation or evaluation at all...
> >
> > --
> > Aaron@home
> >
> >
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