#3 F# Friendly Enumerations

[Keldor]

Could you add a default enumeration to each of the various enumerations in Cloo? That is, an enumeration for the case when no flags are being passed - i.e. for the value 0. This would make it a lot easier to use in F#, which requires explicit enums for each value, or else a long, ugly type cast.

e.g. change

public enum CommandQueueFlags : long
{
QueueOutOfOrderExecModeEnable = ((int)(1 << 0)),
QueueProfilingEnable = ((int)(1 << 1)),
}

to

public enum CommandQueueFlags : long
{
QueueNoFlags = 0,
QueueOutOfOrderExecModeEnable = ((int)(1 << 0)),
QueueProfilingEnable = ((int)(1 << 1)),
}

Which lets me change

Microsoft.FSharp.Core.LanguagePrimitives.EnumOfValue<int64,OpenTK.Compute.CL10.CommandQueueFlags>(0L)

to

OpenTK.Compute.CL10.CommandQueueFlags.QueueNoFlags

[nythrix]

This will be implemented into the next version which features a new hand-written layer of enums. The old one made use of autogenerated constructs and those didn't permit such modifications easily.

[nythrix]

Ok. I've added None to queue flags. You can find it in /Cloo/Source/Enums.cs.

I also checked the rest of the enums but it doesn't make sense for them to have such a flag. For example, you have to specify read and/or write access for a buffer. Passing none in this case would be an error.

If you can think of more enums where such a value would be useful, let me know.

[Keldor]

Awesome! I'll check out the latest snapshot and see how they work. :-)

[nythrix]

Implemented in 0.6.0.