On Sun, Oct 6, 2024, at 2:25 AM, Juliette Reinders Folmer wrote: > I can imagine combining the alternative approach via > get_declared_symbols() with a new symbol_exists() function like you > suggest above (with a similar slow path to deprecate and remove the old > functions). > > On the plus side, the alternative approach makes for much more > versatile functionality. In a number of the cases I looked at, the > results from various get_declared_*() functions are combined before > further processing, so having a `get-declared_symbols()` function would > allow for simplifying that code. The same can be said for the > *_exists() functions.
FWIW, I'd love to have get_declared_symbols() and symbol_exists() functions, regardless of what we do with enums in particular. That's arguably a topic for another RFC, though. (And debatable if functions would count as symbols, but again, topic for another time.) --Larry Garfield
