turn `enum` into `@enum`

[Rosy-iso]

when converting old 2.5 code to 3.0 I noticed I changed all enums to a bunch of @define, which made me realise enum would work better as a preprocessor directive that sets many preprocessor variables

[Markos-Th09]

when converting old 2.5 code to 3.0 I noticed I changed all enums to a bunch of @define, which made me realise enum would work better as a preprocessor directive that sets many preprocessor variables

The current implementation of enums is kinda bad already because it doesn't really have named enums (which I prefer). And also it is would be better to remain a keyword

[Rosy-iso]

If you mean Rust's those are too complex and don't feel necessary in Clue (since tables)

[Markos-Th09]

If you mean Rust's those are too complex and don't feel necessary in Clue (since tables)

No that. I just mean that the enum should have a name. The variants won't really have any value with them.

enum Something{
     A,
     B
}

[Rosy-iso]

A name would really only be useful for type checking, which is not yet a thing

[Markos-Th09]

A name would really only be useful for type checking, which is not yet a thing

but we don't really need types to implement it it would just be compiled to a table

[Rosy-iso]

That is..unnecessary?

[Rosy-iso]

The point of enums is to define state constants more quickly
But since those states are just constant numbers it would be better to make them a compile time thing

[Markos-Th09]

The point of enums is to define state constants more quickly
But since those states are just constant numbers it would be better to make them a compile time thing

but we still need good lua interoperability

[Rosy-iso]

What?

[Markos-Th09]

if you were to make a library which should also work in lua the the enum must be easy to use to use in lua

[Rosy-iso]

I guess that's fair

[Rosy-iso]

How about just having both enum and @enum?
One compiles to global variables that can be used outside of the Clue code (for libraries) and the other is all compile time?

Edit: ...that pinged somone, oops

[Markos-Th09]

I guess if the difference is clear for everyone it they can satisfy both use cases

[Rosy-iso]

local enum could error saying to use @enum instead
While global enum will work but give a warning