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From: rmartin@clear.com (Bob Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: enums and function/method return values
Message-ID: <1991Feb4.153156.15087@clear.com>
Date: 4 Feb 91 15:31:56 GMT
References: <48742@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: Clear Communications, Inc.
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In article <48742@apple.Apple.COM> ksand@apple.com (Kent Sandvik) writes:
>I'm not sure that this is syntactically OK, but I would like to
>achieve better function return value scoping using enums. Ex:
>
>class TFoo {
>public:
>       TFoo(){};
>       virtual eFoobar GetStatus(void){ return fStatus;};
>       enum eFoobar {OK, NOK, MAYBE};
>private:
>       eFoobar fStatus;
>// ....
>};
>
>I'm using Mac MPW 1.0 C++ (AT&T 2.0 derivate). I also tried with
>typecasting, but the compiler did not like this either. Anyway
>it complains about eFoobar not being a type name.
>Kent Sandvik

Kent:

I got the same error using SUN's 2.0 compiler.  But when I moved the enum
statement up above the TFOO(){} constructor the error went away.




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