In our previous episode, Matt Emson said: > > Sparse enums are simply a kludge. They were needed because they exist in > > the Windows API, and afaik for that only. IOW for easy translation of > > Windows types. > > They were added to Delphi in version 6. I though they added them to > support Qt and the CLX, which relied on Qt as its underlying base > toolkit. They were common in C/C++ before that though.
Well, anyway, foreign interfacing related, not core language feature. > The problem I always had with Pascal supporting them was that a Pascal > enum was designed to represents the position in a sequence and not > necessarily an underlying integral value - where as a sparse enum is > simply a grouping for a bunch of numerical values at the whim of the > developer. I never had a problem with that. I use them in headers, and not otherwise, so I never have a problem :-) _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
