Sort enum values, please

2009-11-25 Thread Tomek Sowiñski
Quick one: could the compiler enforce that enum values in order of appearance are sorted? It could neatly guarantee no surprises with case ranges, like this one: enum Weird { One=1, Two=4, Three=3 } Now, case Weird.One: .. case Weird.Three: won't match Weird.Two. I'd agree that you don't see e

Re: Sort enum values, please

2009-11-25 Thread Tomek Sowiñski
dsimcha Wrote: > Have you ever seen this issue come up in practice in a real program? I'd be > hesitant to add even a small amount of complexity and restrictions to a > language > to prevent some class of bugs that's only a theoretical possibility and almost > never occurs in real-world code. It