Re: enums ... what am I doing wrong?

From: Hans Kesting (news.2.hansdk_at_spamgourmet.com)
Date: 11/11/04 

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 10:21:59 +0100

Craig wrote:
> Newbie...
>
> I'm casting enums back and forth to ints so to use them as an index
> into a complex two dimensional array. I thought it would help
> readability. Instead, my code has casts all over the place.
>
> All the casting is giving me the jitters. Where did I go wrong?
>
> Thanks!

How about using constants instead of enum values?
* same readability of enum (words instead of "magic numbers")
* they really are int's

public const int WHATEVER = 3;
myval = store[WHATEVER];

Hans Kesting

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