[fpc-devel] [Suggestion] Enumeration range-check intrinsic

[Giuliano Colla]

Il 07/07/2019 07:33, J. Gareth Moreton ha scritto:
> In the meantime, I'm working on making
> "as" and "is" work with ordinal types as
> well as enumerations, although currently
> some headaches occur if the right-hand
> side is larger than the CPU word size
> (e.g. Int64 on i386). I'll upload the
> patch to the issue once it's working
> properly.

Sorry for jumping in without having followed the full discussion, but I 
wonder if "as" and "is" are the best constructs to implement range 
checking. Wouldn't "in" be much more appropriate?

Sort of:

if value in enumvar then DoThat else IgnoreIt;

Giuliano

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