Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 16:38 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
>> My little enumkit tool allows you to create enumerations today very
>> easily, but its values are completely hardcoded. However, the above
>> trick still works. The downside is that each enumeration type requires a
>> tiny bit of compilation.
>>
>
> Andrew,
>
> Your enum sounds good, apart from the hardcoded/compilation thing. That
> is a data management nightmare AFAICS and so restricts the usefulness of
> the solution.
>
>
>
Simon, Tom Dunstan has submitted a patch for first class enum types that
do not have the compilation requirement - it's in the queue for 8.3. You
might want to review that.
cheers
andrew