Zack Weinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 20:54 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
| > > This doesn't do what I want at all. The goal is to make the *symbolic
| > > enumeration constants* inaccessible to most code.
| >
| ...
| > If it's OK to have the enums in a header, provided you can't *use* them...
| >
| > enum {
| > #ifdef TVQ_AUTHORITATIVE_ENUMS
| > TVQ_FOO1,
| > TVQ_FOO2,
| > TVQ_FOO3,
| > TVQ_NUM_ENTRIES,
| > #endif
| > TVQ_INT_SIZER = 32767;
| > } TheValQuux;
| >
| > This won't stop a suitably enthusiastic programmer from getting to
| > them anyway, but that's always the case.
|
| Ooh, I like this one for enum machine_mode. The relevant header
| (machmode.def) is already machine-generated, so it would be a fairly
| small change. And doesn't in any way interfere with Gabriel's cleanups
| to use the enumeration type instead of 'int', which is good.
I want to say a public thank to DJ and Mark for building the bridge
between Zack and me.
-- Gaby
