Coywolf Qi Hunt <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2005/12/3, Bill Davidsen <[email protected]>:
> > Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote:
> > > This is a reason why enums are worse than #defines.
> > >
> > > Unlike in other languages, C enum is not much useful in practices.
> > Actually they are highly useful if you know how to use them. They allow
> > type checking, have auto increment, and are part of the language instead
> > of a feature of the preprocessor.
The preprocessor /is/ part lof the language...
> Yes, I know type checking and auto increment. But they are not
> worthwhile, at least not for serious C programming.
They do have their uses. No, C (particularly as used today) is not a
"designed" language, it has several ways of doing the same thing, some
quirks, and outright design mistakes.
> No, I don't know
> how to use them comfortably.
Then you aren't fit to judge, are you?
> What's wrong with sorted macros? They are more flexible
"More flexible" == "more leeway to screw up"...
> and readable.
"Readable" is in the eye of the beholder...
> enums just look weird.
Ditto.
> We also share macros b/w C and asm.
So what?
[...]
> Follow you logic, C standard should only specify C language, not
> anything of libc... I have no interest in arguing the relations b/w C
> and cpp.
libc is part of the language, as is cpp.
[...]
> > It would have been good to use enums in the first place, I can't see
> > changing now because of the effort involved.
> You contradict yourself rather.
No. The difference between them is not /that/ large, and by now the use of
#define is so much part of the "way things are done" that the pain of
changing it doesn't buy you enough.
What I see is that you don't know too much about large-scale software
development (and Linux is definitively in that league).
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