[boost] Re: Static lookup

From: Johan Nilsson (johan.nilsson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-12-04 02:32:29

Well,

if anyone's interested, tell me. This version simply implements a linear
search, but for me this has been sufficient as I generally only got so many
items in a table. Also, it only works for a one-to-one mapping (in both
directions).

// Johan

"David B. Held" <dheld_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:asg0jo$mf4$1_at_main.gmane.org...
> "Johan Nilsson" <johan.nilsson_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
> news:asf9bt$7g6$1_at_main.gmane.org...
> > [...]
> > enum Colors
> > {
> >   Red = 1,
> >   Blue = 2
> > };
> >
> > struct ColorTable
> >   : public StaticLookupTable<ColorTable, Colors, std::string>
> > {
> >   LOOKUP_TABLE_BEGIN()
> >   LOOKUP_ENTRY(Red, "Red")
> >   LOOKUP_ENTRY(Blue, "Blue")
> >   LOOKUP_TABLE_END()
> > };
> > [...]
>
> This looks like something that could/should go into a smart enum library.
> The ability to map strings to enums seems common enough (and is just as
> important to me as iterating over an enum type).
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>
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