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Enum literal has already been defined with literal [message #517498]

Sun, 28 February 2010 20:03

Dénes Harmath

Messages: 157
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi all,

I think having multiple literals for the same enum literal is a frequent use case: most DSLs allow syntactic synonyms for the same semantic value. (E.g. a "full" and an "abbreviated" one.)
But there is a validation warning on these enum literals. Can it be disabled somehow, or maybe this validation is not reasonable and should not exist?

Thanks in advance,
thSoft

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Re: Enum literal has already been defined with literal [message #517788 is a reply to message #517498]

Tue, 02 March 2010 02:16

Sven Efftinge

Messages: 1823
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi Dennis,

the warning is there to warn users who did specify the same literal
twice by accident. We are aware that it is not nice to have
unsurpressable warnings.
The annotation feature would come in handy here. Something we propably
do post Helios.

Sven

Dennis Harmath schrieb:
> Hi all,
>
> I think having multiple literals for the same enum literal is a frequent
> use case: most DSLs allow syntactic synonyms for the same semantic
> value. (E.g. a "full" and an "abbreviated" one.)
> But there is a validation warning on these enum literals. Can it be
> disabled somehow, or maybe this validation is not reasonable and should
> not exist?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> thSoft

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Re: Enum literal has already been defined with literal [message #517899 is a reply to message #517788]

Tue, 02 March 2010 13:37

Dénes Harmath

Messages: 157
Registered: July 2009

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> the warning is there to warn users who did specify the same literal twice by accident.

Then I advise that synonyms must be defined grouped, e.g. this way:
enum FooType: lol = ("laughing out loud" | "lol") | rofl;

This way, information duplication is reduced, and the warning could be kept (or maybe even advance to error).

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Re: Enum literal has already been defined with literal [message #1154527 is a reply to message #517899]

Fri, 25 October 2013 08:56

Till F.

Messages: 58
Registered: August 2012

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Dénes Harmath wrote on Tue, 02 March 2010 08:37

>
Then I advise that synonyms must be defined grouped, e.g. this way:
enum FooType: lol = ("laughing out loud" | "lol") | rofl;

Somewhat old thread, but I think it's worth to be brought up again. The suggestion of Dénes is great; unfortunately it has not been implemented yet.

Is there a possibility to suppress warnings by now (especially the "enum literal has been defined" one...)?

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