[fpc-devel] enums and integer auto conversion

[Jonas Maebe]

On 10 Sep 2012, at 23:42, Daniël Mantione wrote:

> Op Mon, 10 Sep 2012, schreef Jonas Maebe:
> 
>> You can explicitly define the ordinal values of enumerations if you depend on that sort of stuff (which afaik the Qt units in fact do).
> 
> That's a rewriting of history, as we invented that feature.

With as primary reason: interfacing with external C libraries.

> Obviously people were writing interfaces to external libraries before that. Were those programmers wrong? Not at all, they could succesfully rely on guaranteed binary representations in Borland manuals.

If the Borland defined that enumerations always start at 0, we will guarantee that too.


Jonas