On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
This recipe is pretty much the full extent of the proposal (perhaps with the automatic type generation I mention in the discussion section): http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577810-named-values/
I like the NamedValue/namedvalue recipe. I prefer module constants like os.SEEK_END to nested names like os.Seek.End and this encourages that. If someone decides to change os module to: SEEK_END = namedvalue('SEEK_END', 2) that won't break anything. For the simple enum case, a decorator could transform @enum class Color: red = 1 green = 2 into: class Color: red = namedvalue('Color.red', 1) green = namedvalue('Color.green', 2) --- Bruce Follow me: http://www.twitter.com/Vroo http://www.vroospeak.com