On 8/9/12 2:41 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 3:38 PM, David Rajchenbach-Teller > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Perhaps, at some point, we will want to adapt xpidl to take advantage of >> this. > > XPIDL doesn't allow enums at all, does it?
Not yet, no. But this doesn't prevent us from defining sequences of integers to be used as enums all over the place. >> Also, with this new feature, should we consider some static analysis to >> try and root out untyped enumerations? > > I'm not sure what you mean. > I mean that, in a number of places in our codebase, we use untyped enumerations (which is only fair, given that we had no compiler support for typed enumeration). If we decide to, we could probably write some static analysis tool to convert them semi-automatically to typed enumerations, for better safety. Cheers, David -- David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD Performance Team, Mozilla
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