foreach with enum

[Bill Baxter]

Ameer Armaly wrote:
> "Bill Baxter" <dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com> wrote in message 
> news:f7p06o$j56$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> Ameer Armaly wrote:
>>> "BCS" <ao at pathlink.com> wrote in message 
>>> news:ce0a3343bffb8c99827432b23b4 at news.digitalmars.com...
>>>> Reply to Vladimir,
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:14:59 +0300, Thomas Mader <thezema at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I am just porting some of my little Java programs to D to get
>>>>>> comfortable with the langugage and realized that I cannot use foreach
>>>>>> with Enums.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In Java I can do:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> enum Color { Kreuz, Pik, Herz, Karo }
>>>>>>
>>>>>> for(Color color : Color.values()) {}
>>>>>>
>>>>>> AFAIK thats not possible in D yet.
>>>>>>
>>>>> for (Color color=Color.min; color<=Color.max; color++)
>>>>> writefln(color);
>>>> enum Color { Kreuz = 1, Pik = 2, Herz = 4, Karo = 8 }
>>>>
>>> Maybe make enums work with the in operator? I.E:
>>> enum Color { Kreuz = 1, Pik = 2, Herz = 4, Karo = 8 }
>>> for(int i = Color.min; i <= Color.max; ++i)
>>> {
>>> if( i in Color)
>>> writefln(i);
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>> enum Color { Kreuz = 1, None = uint.max }
>>
> Would do...? Pardon me but I don't see what you're getting at.

Enumerating all values from 1 to uint.max could take a long long time.

--bb