Symbols as parameters?

[Ben Finney]

Carl Banks <pavlovevidence at gmail.com> writes:

> On Jan 21, 1:51 pm, Martin Drautzburg <Martin.Drautzb... at web.de>
> wrote:
> > (2) Using enum's was suggested. That is good to know, but again it
> > is just a way to define constants in the caller's namespace.
>
> It'll at least corral the symbols you want.

It also satisfies the strongly-expressed demand you had for these
constants to *not* be strings. It keeps the semantic meaning of these
constants very distinct, and greatly reduces the possibility of an
object accidentally having the same value as one of these constants.

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