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| From | David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Book or tutorial on standard C threads |
| Date | 2021-12-16 20:27 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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On 16/12/2021 19:32, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
>
>> But C++ /does/ have several alternatives to a long list of booleans like
>> this. The simplest would be:
>>
>> enum class FlagA { True, False };
>> enum class FlagB { True, False };
>>
>> void foo(FlagA a, FlagB b);
>>
>> void bar(void) {
>> foo(FlagA::True, FlagB::False);
>> }
>>
>> You can't get this wrong and call "foo(FlagB::True, FlagA::False)" - the
>> compiler would spot the error. Strong types like this for parameters
>> can help if you have a long parameter list.
>
> Although 'true' and 'false' by themselves don't transmit anything useful
> at the call site.
>
> enum class DMAtype { Flat, ScatterGather, None };
> enum class ERRmode { Recover, Abort, Ignore };
>
> foo(DMAType::Flat, ERRmode::Recover);
>
> Enhances readability and maintainability.
>
Of course. This was just an example of a relatively small improvement.
There are other ways to do better. (And "True" and "False" may be
entirely sufficient if the type name is good enough -
EnableAutoMode::True is hard to better.)
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