Re: How to elegantly get the enum code from its string type
"Keith H Duggar" <duggar@alum.mit.edu> wrote in message
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2) Alf did not specify /this/ forum. The discussions have
taken place in many forums including (but certainly not
limited to) for example the moderated C++ usenet group:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c++.moderated/search?group=comp.lang.c%2B%2B.moderated&q=unsigned
where you can find debates having /hundreds/ of moderated
posts arguing the topic. Do you have anything /new/ to add
to that well trodden territory?? So far the answer is no.
The very fact that there are "hundreds" of post "arguing" the topic should
tell you something.
The following is quite sane IMO:
typedef std::vector<int> items;
....
items theItems;
....
for (items::size_type i = 0; i != theItems.size(); ++i)
{
/* do stuff with theItems[i] */
}
making i an "int" because some people create bugs when using a perfectly
fine language feature is just plain wrong (if not insane) IMO.
/Leigh
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