On Sat, 14 May 2011, Joerg Schuelke wrote:
Am Sat, 14 May 2011 00:36:17 +0200
schrieb Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be>:
1) the compiler automatically makes you keep them in sync, because
adding/removing an element form the enumeration will cause a
compilation error for the array if it's not updated
2) the array can actually be removed at some time in the future, because FPC can
nowadays convert enumerations to their their name in string
representation (via str(), write() and writestr()). There are still
some bugs in this functionality in 2.4.x on some platforms though, so
it can't be used yet in the compiler
2) This is the solution? Making the compiler to store somewhere a
string representation in my object file and then give it back to me if
I request it by str(enumerate)??? Thats so completely ... overhead,
with a cannon to shoot a sparrow. Since when has an enumeration such
kind of name, which lives outside compile time?
Since always as soon as you use str() on it, or if it is in RTTI somewhere.
How do you think streaming works ?
Michael.
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