Isaac Morland <ijmor...@uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>
> > Le mardi 23 novembre 2010 à 12:32 -0500, Isaac Morland a écrit :
> >> On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> >>
> >>> We already have a bunch of bizarrely unrelated stuff in collections
> >>> (such as Callable), so we could put enum there too.
> >>
> >> Why not just "enum" (i.e., "from enum import [...]" or "import
> >> enum.[...]")? Enumerations are one of the basic kinds of types overall
> >> (speaking informally and independent of any specific language) - they
> >> aren't at all exotic.
> >
> > Enumerations aren't a type at all (they have no distinguishing
> > property).
Not in C, but in some other languages.
> Each enumeration is a type (well, OK, not in every language,
> presumably, but certainly in many languages).
The main purpose of that is to be able to catch type mismatches with
static typing, though. Seems kind of pointless for Python.
> Classes have their own keyword. I don't think it's disproportionate
> to give enums a top-level module name.
I do.
> Hey, how about this syntax:
>
> enum Colors:
> red = 0
> green = 10
> blue
Why not
class Color:
red = (255, 0, 0)
green = (0, 255, 0)
blue = (0, 0, 255)
Seems to handle the situation OK.
Bill
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