Re: [Alephmodular-devel] on ENUMS...

[Br'fin <br...@ma...>]

On Sunday, December 29, 2002, at 09:40  PM, Chris Pickel wrote:
> [On your second message]
>> ENUMS
> Well, in a lot of instances, we would want to allow modules to define 
> values past those that were originally in the enum. A typedef would 
> prevent anyone from adding _media_milk on to the media types enum, so 
> it we should probably keep things as they are.
>
> On your other points, I agree. Typecasts are bad, new is good, 
> obsolete is bad.

Well, those same ENUMS also define MAXIMUM_<enum-type> for that ENUM, 
so it would make additions to the enums hard to begin with.

I certainly agree with your interest in adding to the enums. Poking 
through things, there is a definite need for a secondary Physics type 
file. There's quite a number of Marathon 2 definitions in the source 
(Media and effect definitions and sound effects) which need to be on 
some kind of a switch (We're loading an M2 map, swap out the Minf 
definitions and use the M2 ones)

-Jeremy Parsons