On 28 Feb 2006 09:58:47 -0800 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Add me to the "me, too!" list of people who think > enumerations would be better off without > or < > comparison.
+1 on "unordered" Comparable enums do have use-cases (like the days of the week), but I can't think of many of them. Also, there is the point that even the days of the week is not a great use of the ordering since it varies between locales, as I think was pointed out in this thread. The most compelling reason to have some kind of ordering is just so you can iterate over them -- but dicts are iterable without being ordered, so I see no reason why enums couldn't be. In C, enums are a rather shallow mask pulled over integers, and as is common practice in C, the mask is routinely ignored or removed. I think that enums in Python, if added, should be "strong enums" without this kind of ambiguous behavior. I also think though that the characterization of the behavior of enumerated value instances is much more important than the behavior of the enumeration collection object, which is basically just a set, anyway. Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
