enum

deadalnix deadalnix at gmail.com
Mon Apr 14 11:21:04 PDT 2014


On Sunday, 13 April 2014 at 22:49:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
> On 4/12/14, 8:15 PM, deadalnix wrote:
>> On Saturday, 12 April 2014 at 19:43:30 UTC, Andrei 
>> Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> Sorry, your speculations are mistaken. The pattern works well 
>>> and
>>> we've been using it repeatedly and with good results since C++
>>> introduced "enum class".
>>>
>>
>> Can you provide a sample code so we understand what you are 
>> talking
>> about ? It do not seems to me that enum classes defeat 
>> Jonathan point,
>> but I may be wrong.
>
> The UserID example is a good one. You need to cast a couple of 
> times when doing I/O, then passing user IDs around is nice 
> because no other integers can be passed instead.
>
> Andrei

I understand the benefit of that, but how does that require
language support ?


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