Private enum members + Descent

[Michel Fortin]

On 2009-10-24 18:45:10 -0400, Justin Johansson <no at spam.com> said:

> Let me try again.  You have a set of N things which are represented by
> an enum definition.  There is some subset of this set containing M
> things (so M < N) which represents the things meaningful in a public
> sense.  The remaining Q=N-M members of the whole set are only meaningful
> to some internal processing so this subset containing Q members are
> designated private.  I'm trying to think about this problem in an abstract
> way; sometimes giving concrete examples like Color colors (pun intended)
> the abstract problem.

Sounds like you want enum inheritance: one enum being a superset of 
another.  :-)


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