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Re: enum paralellism

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On 1/17/12 10:08 AM, Roedy Green wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:33:46 -0500, Eric Sosman
> <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid>  wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
> someone who said :
>
>>      Is this parallelism a result of using classes from different
>> sources, each with its own enum to represent the same set of things?
>
> Is is a general question hoping to collect techniques that might apply
> in different circumstances.  However, what triggered it is I have
> three different enums:
>
> 1. online bookstores where you look things up by ISBN.  I probe the
> bookstore to see if they have a given book in stock by looking for
> snippets in the response e.g.
<snip>
> There are similar enums for DVDs stores that look up by UPC, and
> Amazon stores that look up by ASIN. The other way to deal with it
> would be to combine them in to one big enum with parms to keep track
> of the subtype.

While an interesting approach, I would personally look into 
externalizing that into a configuration file, rather than inlining it as 
enums. That way you don't need to recompile when you update your settings.

In any case, see my other message about how to achieve what you're asking.

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enum paralellism Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-01-16 06:16 -0800
  Re: enum paralellism Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-01-16 10:33 -0500
    [OT] East and West in Oz (Was: enum paralellism) Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-01-16 10:32 -0800
    Re: enum paralellism Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-01-17 10:08 -0800
      Re: enum paralellism Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-01-17 10:37 -0800
  Re: enum paralellism Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-01-17 10:34 -0800

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