Re: enum and operator++

From:
Yu Han <hanjunyu@163.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:21:25 +0800
Message-ID:
<hj777p$2epi$1@adenine.netfront.net>
On 01/20/2010 11:07 PM, Saeed Amrollahi wrote:

Dear all
I am struggling with a problem that's simple per se.
I have an enum and a prefix ++ operator:
enum Dir { North = 1, East = 2, South = 3, West = 4, Max_ = 5 }; //
clockwise

Dir operator++(Dir d)
{
   Dir dd;
   switch (d) {
   case North:
     dd = East;
     break;
   case East:
     dd = South;
     break;
   case South:
     dd = West;
     break;
   case West: // wrap
     dd = North;
     break;
   };

   return dd;
}

void f()
{
    for (Dir d = North; d< Max_; ++d)

----->for (Dir d = North; d< Max_; d=++d)

     // do something
}

The problem is: in the above loop the ++ doesn't work,
indeed the loop is infinite. If you replace // do something with
output statement, it prints 1 forever.

It is really annoying.

please throw a ligth.

Regards,
   -- Saeed Amrollahi


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