Colors in Raylib

[meta]

On Tuesday, 1 March 2022 at 15:37:55 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 3/1/22 07:19, Mike Parker wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 1 March 2022 at 13:15:09 UTC, meta wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>     enum Color
> >>     { GRAY }
> >>
> >>     void setColor(Color color);
> >>
> >>     setColor(GRAY);
> >
> > Then that defeats the purpose of having named enums.
>
> Yes and no.
>
> meta is pointing at a difference between the above and the 
> following:
>
>   writeln(GRAY);
>
> In the latter case, the compiler has no clue whether I intended 
> to type GRAM. But in the former case, the type is Color. What 
> remains is whether the compiler should be looking deep into 
> Color and have a list of values to lower GRAY to Color.GRAY.
>
> We heard this before for the switch statement: When the 
> variable is Color, the case values can be accepted as Color as 
> well (without the qualifier). (Yes, 'with' works as well, but 
> the idea is the same.)
>
> It feels the same for even int because we don't write int(42) 
> when passing an int argument:
>
> void foo(int) {}
>
> foo(int(42));  // works
> foo(42);       // works as well
>
> So the lack of this compiler help does not bother me but still, 
> I think the request is meaningful.
>
> Ali

Yes, that's exactly the point I was trying to make, thanks Ali!