* Nicolas Trangez
On Sat, 2012-11-17 at 16:52 +0200, Roman Cheplyaka wrote:
Hi Nicolas,
The simplest approach would be to use the standard (derived) Enum instance that would be used for enumerations (like [Flag1..]), and have your own functions to convert to/from magic constants.
Sure, but that kind-of defeats the purpose... fromEnum/toEnum would then return some nonsensical integer value.
What's your purpose, exactly? I see two of them — being able to use enumerations, and converting from/to magical constants. If you want to use toEnum/fromEnum for conversions so badly, you can leave them as you defined them, but redefine the enumFrom* methods from the Enum class. But I'd still advise that you do your conversion outside of the Enum class, since such instance would be very unintuitive to someone who reads or uses your code. BTW, the value of the derived fromEnum is not nonsensical — it determines where in the [Flag1..] list a particular flag would appear. Roman