DIPX: Enum Literals / Implicit Selector Expression
TheGag96
thegag96 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 3 18:25:04 UTC 2022
On Friday, 1 July 2022 at 15:42:20 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
> (Snip)
This is exactly how it should work. I think this is a pretty good
feature. You want the strong typing, without namespace pollution,
and without having to type everything out. It looks like the
other C replacement languages see the value in it.
Ada of all languages actually works very similarly:
```ada
function foo is
type thing is (a, b, c);
type thang is (b, c, a);
x : thing := a;
y : thang := a; -- no ambiguity
begin
-- ...
end foo;
```
We should learn a thing or two from Ada type features! Like using
enums and ranges of enums as array bounds, for example. Ada is
not a smooth language, but they somehow nailed stuff like this.
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