New enum features

[Sivo Schilling]

Sean Kelly Wrote:

> Sivo Schilling wrote:
> > 
> > Is there a difference between an anonymous enum member and a manifest
> > constant considering a string?
> 
> I wouldn't expect so.  In fact I wonder if it shouldn't be a compile 
> error to pass a manifest constant string to a run-time function.  How 
> can you take the address of something with no storage?
> 
> 
> Sean

Why should it a compile time error ? From the specs I guess
that the enhanced enum feature acts as "#define" in C/C++.
And it works as shown in my simple code example.
The question is bracketing or no bracketing!

With this small modification of the original code

// enum chrm_ = "This is a manifest constant string.";
enum { chrm_ = "This is a manifest constant string."}

the result is as expected.

In this light the specs considering manifest constants
should be verified for arrays of any kind.

Sivo