Comments on: To Enum or Not to Enum http://www.potentialgames.com/blog/2008/06/25/to-enum-or-not-to-enum/ Notes of a Potential Independent Game Developer Sat, 01 May 2010 13:27:33 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: neb http://www.potentialgames.com/blog/2008/06/25/to-enum-or-not-to-enum/comment-page-1/#comment-197 neb Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:21:11 +0000 http://www.potentialgames.com/blog/?p=64#comment-197 As a counter-example, I'm still loading terrain types from an external config file. This is simple enough, because the terrain logic (just a navigability check, at this point) does not need to know the specific terrain type. As a counter-example, I’m still loading terrain types from an external config file. This is simple enough, because the terrain logic (just a navigability check, at this point) does not need to know the specific terrain type.

]]> By: neb http://www.potentialgames.com/blog/2008/06/25/to-enum-or-not-to-enum/comment-page-1/#comment-195 neb Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:11:37 +0000 http://www.potentialgames.com/blog/?p=64#comment-195 Thanks for the corroborating report. I'm glad I'm not the only one. I'm currently stripping out dozens of lines-of-code and replacing them with ShopType { WEAPONSMITH } ... so much simpler. I love deleting crufty code. Thanks for the corroborating report. I’m glad I’m not the only one.

I’m currently stripping out dozens of lines-of-code and replacing them with ShopType { WEAPONSMITH } … so much simpler. I love deleting crufty code.

]]> By: Todd http://www.potentialgames.com/blog/2008/06/25/to-enum-or-not-to-enum/comment-page-1/#comment-194 Todd Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:50:10 +0000 http://www.potentialgames.com/blog/?p=64#comment-194 We ran into this on our current project. We wanted to make it possible to drop in a new data source without changing code, so we defined metadata files that describe the data structure. But we still have to write code to access those data sources and so we needed a way to enumerate them in code. And so that's what we did. Now we maintain the data structure in two places. Going to exclusively using enums now seems like the better choice. We ran into this on our current project. We wanted to make it possible to drop in a new data source without changing code, so we defined metadata files that describe the data structure. But we still have to write code to access those data sources and so we needed a way to enumerate them in code. And so that’s what we did. Now we maintain the data structure in two places.

Going to exclusively using enums now seems like the better choice.

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