Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> writes:
> William Baker <williamtbakerem...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Although my debugger might not be the smartest, I haven't noticed any
>> downsides to switching this to an enum.
>
> Well, if you write
>
> enum { BIT_0 = 1, BIT_1 = 2, BIT_3 = 4 } var;
>
> it's pretty much a promise that the normal value for the var is one
> of these listed values to your readers.
... that is why compilers give a warning when you write
switch (var) {
case ...:
...
}
and do not have case arms for all the declared enum values without
having the 'default' arm.
