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

[Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>]

we will probably use that syntax in Genie as thats what Delphi does as
well although i may just use:

Flags
        flag1
        flag2

etc

jamie



On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 21:34 +0000, Sam Liddicott wrote:
> Pascal lets you have a bitwise set from an enum using
>
> Set of ENUMTYPE
>
> Sam
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pancake <pancake youterm com>
> Sent: 02 November 2009 18:42
> To: Vala ML <vala-list gnome org>
> Subject: Re: [Vala] Minor features request (about structs and enums)
>
>
> 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
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