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Ticket #310 (new enhancement)

Opened 12 years ago

Last modified 12 years ago

enum check on compilation

Reported by: kobi7 Owned by:
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: Cobra Compiler Version: 0.8.0
Keywords: Cc:

Description

I would like to suggest a feature request:

when branching on an enum, I would like to get a warning if I omit in the 'on' cases one of the enum fields.
one warning for each field.
even if I have an 'else' case.

This is very useful when adding another field, it will let me know all the places in code that I should update.

((the current alternative is throwing a notsupported or notimplemented exception on the else case, which is then more easily discovered. or assert false in that position. however this is on runtime.))

Change History

Changed 12 years ago by Charles

I've thought about doing this before. I was planning on not throwing the error if there was an else. After all you wouldn't usually need the else if you had covered all the enums.

But I think we might also need a directive to disable this in specific cases.

Changed 12 years ago by hopscc

  • type changed from defect to enhancement
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