On 4/11/14, 5:22 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:22:35 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 4/9/14, 9:47 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 4/9/2014 5:39 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Wednesday, April 09, 2014 14:14:21 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
One wants to call a function taking such an enum. -- Andrei
But it _isn't_ going to be a valid enum value. IMHO, a function
which is
taking or-ed flags where those flags are enums needs to take uint or
ulong or
whatever the base type of the enum is and _not_ the enum type.
It makes perfect sense if you think of an enum as an integral type, some
values of which have names, as in the "Color" example I posted earlier.
Problem is you think of it like that in a subset of cases only. FWIW I
wouldn't have advocated for final switch if that was the fostered view.
Idea just came to me. What about notifying the compiler which enums can
be used in final switches (and perhaps should be more stringent in
allowing math operations):
final enum name { ... }
-Steve
This is a most interesting idea! -- Andrei
