I think you can specify the imported namespace paths with 'using', so you dont
need to prefix enums.
----- Original message -----
> Hello list!
> When I have an enum like
>
> enum TrackState {
> PLAYING = 0,
> PAUSED,
> STOPPED
> }
>
> and do the following
> TrackState state = PLAYING;
> I'll get an error, because valac does not search for possible values in
> the scope of TrackState. Instead I have to write
> TrackState state = TrackState.PLAYING;
>
> To my mind that's not convenient and also not the way c or c++ does it.
> In my real world example TrackState lives in a class called GlobalAccess
> which is in the namespace Xnoise.
>
> So (provided I don't want to import Xnoise into the default namespace) I
> have to write
>
> if (ga.get_track_state() == Xnoise.GlobalAccess.TrackState.PLAYING)
> blabal();
>
> that's really not convenient and the worst part of it isn't even the
> typing but remembering the complete "path" to the final value.
>
> if (ga.get_track_state() == PLAYING)
> would be much more readable, writable and memorizable.
> And when you want to use values from a different scope you can still
> prefix it.
> If I have just requested a feature that has already been discussed a
> thousand times, I'm sorry.
>
> regards
> andi
>
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