Le Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:44:33 -0600, Skip Montanaro <s...@pobox.com> a écrit : > > Besides "we just don't need them int-based in these use-cases" what > > are the reasons for the strong desire to have them be valueless? > > Not sure about other people, but piggybacking off C semantics, while > convenient, reflects the limitations of the C implementation more than > anything else. An enumeration, while you can count its items, doesn't > imply that the elements of the enumeration are naturally ordered. If > you force an underlying association with integers, you imply ordering > where none naturally exists. Given this: > > critters = enum(DOG, CAT, RACCOON) > > what does it mean that DOG < CAT?
It doesn't mean anything, but so what? "DOG" > "CAT" doesn't mean much either, and yet it's legal in Python. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
