"%u" <wfunct...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:ik70pq$1a37$1...@digitalmars.com... >>> Lol, okay. Do you have any other suggestions for a better > solution on how to avoid duplicating generic access masks like > MAXIMUM_ALLOWED inside each access mask type? > >> You're doing it wrong. Create OO wrapper instead. > > Hm... but: > > (1) I'm not going to create a new instance of an entire class every > single time I need to check an access mask, that's wasteful. When > was the last time you created a "new int()" on the stack and all you > did was pass the dereferenced value to a function? > > (2) A singleton pattern won't really work with bitwise OR, unless I > instantiate a new access mask object at each call, in which case we > go back to point (1). > > Any other ways? Or am I misunderstanding this?
What exactly is it that you're trying to do?