Re: Re: Clarification on the Enum language structure

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Martin Scotta <martinscotta@gmail.com> wrote: >  Martin Scotta > > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Ben Schmidt > <mail_ben_schmidt@yahoo.com.au>wrote: > >> Are you suggesting this as an enum member function, or just a regular >>>> function in any old class? >>>> >>> >>> "Enum member funcion"? How much it should be like a class before you >>> call it a class? >>> >> >> Exactly. It's crazy. If you want a 'member function' use a class, not an >> enum. >> > > why not supporting methods for enum values? > developers will need that, and by providing type hinting, they will just > create the logic somewhere else... why would developers need this? can you elaborate with some real-life scenario? I thought enums are just strong-typed constants -- Alexey Zakhlestin, http://twitter.com/jimi_dini http://www.milkfarmsoft.com/