Terje Slettebø wrote: > > > Just to make sure: Do you "vote" in favor of enums? I have seen problems > > with 'static const ...', but I have never seen problems with enums > > (although they theoretically exist). > > Not just theoretically. As mentioned in an earlier posting in this thread, > BCC doesn't work well with enums, but it does work with static const. Also, > there's the issues pointed out by Paul Mensonides, due to the fact that > enums are UDTs.
Sorry, I should have been more exact. Of course we can only choose a "default" implementation. If a compiler is buggy, we need to work-around anyway. The drawback of enums, mentioned by Paul, is the one I call theoretically, as I have never found this to be a problem in the real world (well, in *my* real world :). A problem like this can be *created* but special code which I have yet to see in "normal" programs. OTOH I have already seen a colleage wondering about link-failures due to passing a 'static const int ...' to a function which took a 'const T&'. I consider this much more likely to happen in daily programming, YMMV :) Regards, Daniel -- Daniel Frey aixigo AG - financial training, research and technology Schloß-Rahe-Straße 15, 52072 Aachen, Germany fon: +49 (0)241 936737-42, fax: +49 (0)241 936737-99 eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], web: http://www.aixigo.de _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
