Private enum members

[d-noob]

Kagamin Wrote:

> Justin Johansson Wrote:
> 
> > enum Color {
> >   private UNINITIALIZED = -1,
> >   RED, GREEN, BLUE
> > }
> 
> It's syntactical ambiguity, I think. There's no much difference between
> private UNINITIALIZED = -1,
> RED, GREEN, BLUE
> 
> and
> 
> private UNINITIALIZED = -1, RED, GREEN, BLUE

So let's fix it:

enum C {
  private:
  UNINITIALIZED = -1;
  public:
  RED, GREEN, BLUE;
}

But even now it's easy to set illegal values in client code:

C c = RED;
c--; // bang!

Gotta love the implicit conversions - this is almost like pointer arithmetics