Zack Weinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 20:54 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: | > > This doesn't do what I want at all. The goal is to make the *symbolic | > > enumeration constants* inaccessible to most code. | > | ... | > If it's OK to have the enums in a header, provided you can't *use* them... | > | > enum { | > #ifdef TVQ_AUTHORITATIVE_ENUMS | > TVQ_FOO1, | > TVQ_FOO2, | > TVQ_FOO3, | > TVQ_NUM_ENTRIES, | > #endif | > TVQ_INT_SIZER = 32767; | > } TheValQuux; | > | > This won't stop a suitably enthusiastic programmer from getting to | > them anyway, but that's always the case. | | Ooh, I like this one for enum machine_mode. The relevant header | (machmode.def) is already machine-generated, so it would be a fairly | small change. And doesn't in any way interfere with Gabriel's cleanups | to use the enumeration type instead of 'int', which is good.
I want to say a public thank to DJ and Mark for building the bridge between Zack and me. -- Gaby