Enumerated types

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The explicit definition of enumeration types is easy to translate.

Day = (Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun);  

->  

enum Day {Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun };

However, an implicit definition is also possible in object Pascal within a variable declaration. It is decomposed for C++ into an explicit type definition and the real declaration of the variable. The name of the type is derived from the name of the unit by appending two underscores and a counter.

Day : (Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun);

->

enum test__0 {Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun };

test__0 Day;

If the size of an array is specified by an enumerated type, the size is evaluated from the smallest and greatest value of the type.

type

  TEnum = (cm1, cm2, cm3, cm4, cm5, cm6);

var

  foo : Array[TEnum] Of String;

->

enum TEnum {cm1, cm2, cm3, cm4, cm5, cm6 };

AnsiString foo [ 6 /*TEnum*/ ];

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