Re: Passing enum to a function?
Robby wrote:
The error was pointing at the PASSCODE parameter of the function in the
example code of my previous post. And I just discovered that last week I
have declared a function called PASSCODE(int xxx); and I completely forgot
about it. Therefore the compiler thought that my parameter was the name of
a function and not the enumerated constant called PASSCODE.
Just one thing: use ALL_UPPERCASE for macros, always and exclusively. This
is a widely-adopted rule in order to visually keep things apart. There is
no such general rule for functions and variables though.
Further, in particular for enumerations, it is customary to separate them
using a prefix:
enum screen {
screen_password,
screen_xxx,
};
That way you can still have a function called password() somewhere else.
BTW: in case you are actually using C++ and not C, using a namespace would
be a better choice still.
Uli
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