What question is that?

Post #151,061 by jb4 4/13/04 5:20:34 PM Reply	What question is that? By the way, I got a chuckle of the animal that O'Reilly chose to adorn the cover of its C-pigpen book: [image\|http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/covers/progcsharp3.s.gif\|\|\|\|] That is a female peacock! People got a sense o' humor, they got! jb4 shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub* + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf.* BULLSHIT
Post #151,070 by ChrisR 4/13/04 6:24:25 PM Reply	How to avoid a C++ flamefest... ...bring C# into the fray. :-) My inclination is to say that partial enums are probably not supported, due to the way they are usually represented. In the case of classes, structures, etc, you are defining seperate fields. In the case of enums, all the enumerations are generally put into one data field. Doesn't mean a smart compiler can't do it, but then the ordering of enumerations has an effect on the actual ordinal assigned to the enumeration. Which probably means the compiler doesn't like having them scattered about.
Post #151,141 by jb4 4/14/04 10:48:19 AM Reply	Good point ..about the ordering, that is. ;-) Having them scattered about means that one cannot generally identify what the constant value of an enumerator is (unless, of course, the writer went to the trouble of assigning values to at least the first one of each partial declaration). Now, one might argue that this is a Good Thing, as one should treat enums as enums, not as a bastard form of `int`, but that also invites a flame war that I'm not interested in starting, either! jb4 shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub* + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf.* BULLSHIT

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