Re: RFC, problem with g++4

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <ajk@debian.org> writes:

> On 20050729T083332+0000, Brian M. Carlson wrote:
>> Of course, I could be persuaded that the enumeration is a good idea, but
>> I don't see what problem it solves, and it only seems to cause them.
>
> The anon enumeration trick has been an established C++ idom for years
> (ISTR, but cannot check now, even Stroustrup himself advocating it).
> It's a shame if it now suddenly stopped working and is somehow against
> the standard, even.
>
> The problem with #defines is that they're outside the language proper
> and, for example, pay no attention to namespaces.
> -- 
> Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Debian developer 
>
> http://kaijanaho.info/antti-juhani/blog/en/debian

But that is C code and the defines are there anyway, but currently
they are save NOPs.

MfG
        Goswin