enhancing enums
Jeremie Pelletier
jeremiep at gmail.com
Tue Dec 8 21:38:24 PST 2009
hehe45 wrote:
> In c++ it is valid syntax to have trailing commas at the and of enum definitions:
> enum {a, b, c, };
> This would be a useful addition to D too.
>
> The enum class syntax from c++0x should also adopted by D, this would allow named enums which are not automatically encased by a namespace:
>
> enum EnumName {A, B, C}; ---> A, B and C are global constants
> enum class EnumName {A, B, C};---> A, B and C are in the EnumName namespace
I don't think that's necessary, you could simply do:
typedef int EnumName;
enum : EnumName {A, B, C}
And your global scope is happily polluted!
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