July 25, 2011
3:16 p.m.
Barry Warsaw wrote:
On Jul 25, 2011, at 05:46 PM, Michael Foord wrote:
If the flufl enums subclassed integer then replacing most of the existing constants in the standard library would be trivially easy (so we'd have a built-in use case).
I've so far resisted the occasional suggestion to make enum values int subclasses, because I think enum values should not *be* ints, but should be compatible with ints (as they are now). Ordered comparisons of enum values bothers me. ;)
If it's going to be in the stdlib, I think they should be ints -- while not necessary most of the time, the few times it is will illicit praise for Python and its simplicity instead of complaints about somebody making decisions for them. ~Ethan~