FEATURE REQUEST: enum increments specified as an attribute

[Guest]

Would be nice to specify an incremenet or decremenet as an attribute in an
enum so I can for example have the following...

[Increment(2)]
enum SomeEnum
{
A = 0,
B, // 2
C, // 4
D /6
}


or even Powers of 2 for [Flags] and [Base(2)]
so I get...

[Flags]
[Base(2)]
enum SomeEnum
{
A = 0,
B, // 1
C, // 2
D /4
}


Since you are including other lazy coder features in 2.0, how about this
lazy feature too!

 

[Daniel O'Connell]

Would be nice to specify an incremenet or decremenet as an attribute in an
enum so I can for example have the following...

[Increment(2)]
enum SomeEnum
{
A = 0,
B, // 2
C, // 4
D /6
}

How do you propose handling
[Increment(2)]
enum SomeEnum
{
A = 0,
B, //2
C, //4
D=5,
E, // 6, 7, or 8?
F=3,
G, // 5, 8,10, or 12?
}

or even Powers of 2 for [Flags] and [Base(2)]
so I get...

[Flags]
[Base(2)]
enum SomeEnum
{
A = 0,
B, // 1
C, // 2
D /4
}

While this may have SOME merit, more so than the increment, it still has a
few problems. For one, you should extend the flags class to
FlagsAttribute(int base), not add a new attribute. But in cases like:
[Flags(2)]
enum SomeEnum
{
A = 0,
B, //1
C, //2
D=5, //
E, //what should this be, 4, 8?
F=3, //
G, // what about this one?
}

Since you are including other lazy coder features in 2.0, how about this
lazy feature too!

In the end, I think both of these features would make it ALOT harder to use
and understand enums, I don't see much point in them.