Paul Mensonides wrote:
I haven't really been following this conversion, but why do you need an array at all? You have a sequence containing enumerator names. You can generate a switch statement just as easily as you can the enum itself:
switch (v) { case False: return "False"; case True: return "True"; // etc.
I guess that's a possibility... One point in favour of array, is that it ensures us of O(1) lookup time. A good compiler might do that with switch/case but I'm not sure it's something that we can rely on. My knowledge in these compiler optimization issues is definitely not that extended. For the _VALUES version, BTW, an array won't cut it, because the numbers aren't nicely ordered from 0 to size - 1. It needs to a map, or a switch/case, and I'm not really sure which is better... Yuval