Enumerations

[Charles Pegge]

Enumerations are occasionally used to generate series of integer equates. typedef enum is also supported.

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  '------------
  'ENUMERATIONS
  '============

  'SIMPLE ENUMERATION
  '==================

  enum ManyThings
    shoes
    ships
    sealing_wax
    cabbages
    kings
  end enum

  def show "%1: " %1

  print show cabbages


  'ENUMERATION FROM A BASE VALUE
  '=============================

  enum ManyThings
    shoes=11
    ships
    sealing_wax
    cabbages
    kings
  end enum

  print show ships


  'BITWISE ENUMERATION
  '===================
  '1 2 4 8 16 32 64 ...

  enum bit ManyThings
    shoes
    ships
    sealing_wax
    cabbages
    kings
  end enum


  'ENUMERATION USAGE
  '=================

  'Dim as ManyThings mt
  ManyThings mt
  mt=cabbages
  print mt