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Re: New strongly type enum proposal featuring inherited enums

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On 17/08/2011 04:28, Phil Bouchard wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>
>  Is it too late to change the strongly type enum?

Far too late. The new Standard has been voted out (21 yes, 0 no)
  I have a proposal
>  that is much cleaner than what is on its way.
In your opinion.
>
>  Right now we have:
>  enum class Val: unsigned long { E1, E2, E3, E4 };
>
>  Comments:
>  1) This design is bad because the ':' sign is reserved for inheritance.

Since when? The colon (:) is used in several places in C++ that have
nothing to do with inheritance.
>
>  2) Inheriting from another enum would be quite useful. For example:
>  enum class Widget {button, combobox, listview};
>  enum class SuperWidget : Widget {iconview}
Yes, but the above use does not prevent us from doing this if we decide
it is a good idea.

>
>  This way iconview would be equal to 3, not 0.
I am not sure that that follows.
>
>  3) Redefining the underlying type could be easily done with:
>  enum class Val { unsigned long E1, E2, E3, E4 };
Yes but is that better than what we have?
>
>  This is much more neat
In your opinion.
  and is similar to a declaration of multiple
>  instances:
>  const unsigned long E1, E2, E3, E4;
>

However that is all academic because we now have the syntax that you
dislike so all you can do is learn to like it :)



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New strongly type enum proposal featuring inherited enums Phil Bouchard <philippe@fornux.com> - 2011-08-16 21:28 -0600
  Re: New strongly type enum proposal featuring inherited enums Daniel Krügler <daniel.kruegler@googlemail.com> - 2011-08-18 07:54 -0600
    Re: New strongly type enum proposal featuring inherited enums Phil Bouchard<philippe@fornux.com> - 2011-08-24 14:06 -0700
      Re: New strongly type enum proposal featuring inherited enums Daniel Krügler<daniel.kruegler@googlemail.com> - 2011-08-24 17:39 -0700
        Re: New strongly type enum proposal featuring inherited enums Bart van Ingen Schenau<bart@ingen.ddns.info> - 2011-08-25 20:51 -0600
          Re: New strongly type enum proposal featuring inherited enums =3D?ISO-8859-15?Q?Daniel_Kr=3DFCgler?=3D <daniel.kruegler@googlemail.= com> - 2011-09-07 11:08 -0700
            Re: New strongly type enum proposal featuring inherited enums Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2011-09-08 14:46 -0700
              Re: New strongly type enum... why not use "using"? "peter miller"<fuchsia.groan@virgin.net> - 2011-09-12 11:18 -0700
                Re: New strongly type enum... why not use "using"? Miles Bader<miles@gnu.org> - 2011-09-13 09:29 -0700
                Re: New strongly type enum... why not use "using"? "peter miller"<fuchsia.groan@virgin.net> - 2011-09-15 14:13 -0700
  Re: New strongly type enum proposal featuring inherited enums Pete Becker <pete@versatilecoding.com> - 2011-08-18 07:51 -0600
    Re: New strongly type enum proposal featuring inherited enums Victor Bazarov<v.bazarov@comcast.invalid> - 2011-08-24 14:06 -0700
    Re: New strongly type enum proposal featuring inherited enums Paavo Helde<myfirstname@osa.pri.ee> - 2011-08-24 14:06 -0700
    Re: New strongly type enum proposal featuring inherited enums Francis Glassborow<francis.glassborow@btinternet.com> - 2011-08-24 14:52 -0700
      Re: New strongly type enum proposal featuring inherited enums Phil Bouchard<philippe@fornux.com> - 2011-08-24 17:39 -0700
  Re: New strongly type enum proposal featuring inherited enums Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2011-08-18 07:53 -0600
    Re: New strongly type enum proposal featuring inherited enums Phil Bouchard<philippe@fornux.com> - 2011-08-24 14:52 -0700
  Re: New strongly type enum proposal featuring inherited enums Marcel Müller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.com> - 2011-08-18 07:52 -0600
    Re: New strongly type enum proposal featuring inherited enums Phil Bouchard<philippe@fornux.com> - 2011-08-23 18:20 -0700
    Re: New strongly type enum proposal featuring inherited enums Phil Bouchard <philippe@fornux.com> - 2011-08-24 14:52 -0700
    Re: New strongly type enum proposal featuring inherited enums Phil Bouchard <philippe@fornux.com> - 2011-08-24 14:52 -0700
  Re: New strongly type enum proposal featuring inherited enums Francis Glassborow<francis.glassborow@btinternet.com> - 2011-08-24 14:06 -0700
  Re: New strongly type enum proposal featuring inherited enums "Bo Persson"<bop@gmb.dk> - 2011-08-24 14:06 -0700
  Re: New strongly type enum proposal featuring inherited enums red floyd<no.spam.here@its.invalid> - 2011-08-24 14:06 -0700
  Re: New strongly type enum proposal featuring inherited enums Seungbeom Kim<musiphil@bawi.org> - 2011-08-24 14:06 -0700
    Re: New strongly type enum proposal featuring inherited enums Phil Bouchard<philippe@fornux.com> - 2011-08-24 17:39 -0700
    Re: New strongly type enum proposal featuring inherited enums Phil Bouchard<philippe@fornux.com> - 2011-08-24 17:40 -0700
    Re: New strongly type enum proposal featuring inherited enums Phil Bouchard<philippe@fornux.com> - 2011-08-24 17:40 -0700

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