On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger@gmail.com> wrote:
P.S. I used the term "language" instead of stdlib because I expect enums to be like decorators and context managers in that they will be used almost everywhere -- you won't be able to ignore them. Effectively, they will become a core language feature.
I agree with this - and I think it's the named value aspect that will make them so pervasive. It's why I keep hitting on collections.namedtuple as a source of inspiration - it adds as little as possible to ordinary tuples to provide the additional benefits. Enums, on the other hand, come with a lot of excess baggage that many potential use cases simply don't need. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia