Re: [Alephmodular-devel] Enum versus class?

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

On Sunday, March 2, 2003, at 10:46  AM, Alexander Strange wrote:

>
> On Saturday, Mar 1, 2003, at 14:27 US/Eastern, Br'fin wrote:
>
>> As part of dealing with abstracting the display stuff I found myself 
>> wanting to back off a little and implement a BitDepth enum. Or 
>> similar. So I've been dabbling with it, and in wanting some class 
>> related foo I ended up developing the following:
>>
>> class BitDepth
>> <snip>
>
> Eww. Why not:
> typedef enum Depth {depth_8bit = 8, depth_16bit = 16, depth_32bit = 
> 32} Depth;
>

that code that was actually checked in actually had

enum BitDepth {
	_8bit= 8,
	_16bit= 16,
	_32bit= 32
};

And a couple serialization operators>>/<<

It was also pointed out that doing typdef enum {...} EnumName; could be 
cleaned up a bit as just enum EnumName {...};

Using the class for a period did prove useful during the time when I 
was making sure that the rest of the code was properly using the enum 
instead of the raw numbers.

-Jeremy Parsons