Re: [Vala] Minor features request (about structs and enums)

[pancake <pancake youterm com>]

Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> > Another feature that might be out of context, and I don't know if its
> > implemented but nor Google nor the people at the IRC channel have been
> > able to answer me, is enum iteration.
> >
> > foreach ((what type?) item in MyEnum) { ... }
> >     
>
> That's not possible indeed. It might be handy, please open a bug ticket.
>   
There's another bug report requesting a to_string () method for the 
enums that will be nice to have too

I was also thinking on implementing a enumflags keyword that acts like 
enum, but shift bits instead of increasing the value. so you can do:

enumflag Mode {
 READ
 WRITE
}

MyOpen (Mode.READ | Mode.WRITE);

What do you think about adding this new keyword? The thing will be good 
when using bitflags so you dont have to use an enum hardcoding the 
values in a manual way:

enum Mode {
READ=1,
WRITE=2
...4, 8, 16, 32...
}


--pancake