Re: "Reusable" operator overloading for enum?

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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Marcel_M=FCller?= <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.com>

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Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:40:09 +0100

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Hi,

nick wrote:

  inline ParserMode operator|(ParserMode p1, ParserMode p2)
  {
    return (ParserMode)((int)p1 | (int)p2);
  };
  ...

you won't come around to use macros in this case.

E.g.

#define FLAGSATTRIBUTE(T) \
inline static T operator|(T l, T r) \
{ return (T)((unsigned)l|r); } \
inline static T operator&(T l, T r) \
{ return (T)((unsigned)l&r); } \
inline static T& operator|=(T& l, T r) \
{ return l = (T)((unsigned)l|r); } \
inline static T& operator&=(T& l, T r) \
{ return l = (T)((unsigned)l&r); } \
inline static T operator*(bool l, T r) \
{ return (T)(l*(unsigned)r); } \
inline static T operator*(T l, bool r) \
{ return (T)((unsigned)l*r); } \
inline static T operator~(T a) \
{ return (T)~(unsigned)a; }

and possibly

#define CLASSFLAGSATTRIBUTE(T) \
inline friend T operator|(T l, T r) \
{ return (T)((unsigned)l|r); } \
inline friend T operator&(T l, T r) \
{ return (T)((unsigned)l&r); } \
inline friend T& operator|=(T& l, T r) \
{ return l = (T)((unsigned)l|r); } \
inline friend T& operator&=(T& l, T r) \
{ return l = (T)((unsigned)l&r); } \
inline friend T operator*(bool l, T r) \
{ return (T)(l*(unsigned)r); } \
inline friend T operator*(T l, bool r) \
{ return (T)((unsigned)l*r); } \
inline friend T operator~(T a) \
{ return (T)~(unsigned)a; }

for private or protected nested enums.

enum ParserMode
   {
     PM_NONE = 0,
     PM_READY = 1, // ready for next col or row, or EOF
     PM_EMPTY = 2, // empty cell
     PM_CELL = 4, // cell
     PM_QCELL = 8, // quoted cell
     PM_HEAD = 16, // header cell
   };
FLAGSATTRIBUTE(ParserMode)

The result is similar than the FlagsAttribute class in DotNET.

Marcel

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