Re: [Texmacs-dev] enums patch

[Joris van der Hoeven]

> This seems indeed a well accepted usage.
> See for example qdir.h in the Qt header.
> 
>     enum FilterSpec { Dirs        = 0x001,
>                     Files         = 0x002,
>                     Drives        = 0x004,
>                     NoSymLinks    = 0x008,
>                     All           = 0x007,
>                      TypeMask     = 0x00F,
> 
>      ...
>      };

The point is not that much about what is permitted or not,
but whether such a thing should be considered to be a *data type*.
I understand your point of avoiding to use the preprocessor,
but is this really *that* important in this case?