I suggest to introduce additional data types for symbol patterns like "COMPONENT_TYPE_...".
Would you like to replace any constant values by enumerations to stress their relationships?
http://bonkenc.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bonkenc/boca/include/boca/application/componentspecs.h?revision=1.12&view=markup
Anonymous
Closing this ticket as this has been done a long time ago. Somehow this ticket had been overlooked.