Anyone know a good workaround for the lack of an enum generic constraint?

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EDIT: This is now live in version 0.0.0.2 of UnconstrainedMelody.

(As requested on my blog post about enum constraints. I’ve included the basic facts below for the sake of a standalone answer.)

The best solution is to wait for me to include it in UnconstrainedMelody1. This is a library which takes C# code with “fake” constraints such as

where T : struct, IEnumConstraint

and turns it into

where T : struct, System.Enum

via a postbuild step.

It shouldn’t be too hard to write IsSet… although catering for both Int64-based and UInt64-based flags could be the tricky part. (I smell some helper methods coming on, basically allowing me to treat any flags enum as if it had a base type of UInt64.)

What would you want the behaviour to be if you called

tester.IsSet(MyFlags.A | MyFlags.C)

? Should it check that all the specified flags are set? That would be my expectation.

I’ll try to do this on the way home tonight… I’m hoping to have a quick blitz on useful enum methods to get the library up to a usable standard quickly, then relax a bit.

EDIT: I’m not sure about IsSet as a name, by the way. Options:

  • Includes
  • Contains
  • HasFlag (or HasFlags)
  • IsSet (it’s certainly an option)

Thoughts welcome. I’m sure it’ll be a while before anything’s set in stone anyway…

1 or submit it as a patch, of course…

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