Re: Enumeration Issue

[Bradley Millman]

You are basically correct....use enum xpto {one=0, two, three, 
NUMELEMENTS}; to get the number of elements in the enum. There is no way 
to change this during run time. All enum is doing is creating some handy
symbols for you to use. (In c++ the enum is a 'type safe' way of 
insuring you are only using enum values and not just any integer). 
Forget about adding to an enum at run time. I don't think much of doing 
things that are compiler specific and why bother when you have a generic 
way to do it.

Brad

Paulo Matos wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>
> Guess I have an enumeration:
> enum xpto {one, two, three};
>
> How can I compute the number of elements in this enumeration?
> I could in this specific case do:
> enum xpto {one, two, three, NUMELEMENTS};
>
> and each time I add an element I add it _before_ NUMELEMENTS, still
> being this a constant during runtime (don't think there's a way to ad
> an element during runtime) there could be a compiler specific way to do
> this, right? Is there any?
>
> Regards,
>
> Paulo Matos