Antoine Pitrou wrote:
Constants = make_constants('Constants', 'SOME_CONST OTHER_CONST',
values=range(1, 3))
Again, auto-enumeration is useless since it's trivial to achieve
explicitly.
But seeing as it's going to be a common thing to do, why not
make it the default?
When defining an enum, often you don't *care* what the
underlying values are, so assigning sequential natural numbers
is as good a default as any.
In fact, with the Pascal concept of an enumerated type you
don't get any choice in the matter. It's only in the C family
that you get this bastardised conflation of enumerations with
arbitrary named constants...
--
Greg
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