enum types, probe maps

[Paul Johnson]

I just got carried away rewriting an app and getting rid of a bunch of
preprocessor flags that were making it hard to edit. Now I want to just
use a enumerated variable to distinguish the two model specificiations.
I got this idea from HeatSpace.h and the typedef it uses for
ExtremeHeatType.  SO I declared this:

typedef enum {axelrod, hj} ModelType;

Then I declared a variable
ModelType model;

And then used branching like
  if (model == hj) { blah blah}
  else if (model ==axelrod} {blah blah}
  else { warning message to user}

Quickly after writing it this way, I realized I was screwed because var
probes don't like this. THe probe for "model" does not let you type in
"axelrod," as far as I can tell, and further, I realized I don't know
what to do with command line parameter processing to turn the string
"axelrod" into the right format so I can set model equal to it.

Have I correctly understood the nature of my mistake?  

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Paul E. Johnson                       email: address@hidden
Dept. of Political Science            http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn
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