ordinal() returns inconsistent values?
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From: Lew on 12 Apr 2010 18:23 Todd wrote: > Everyone, > > Thanks for all of the responses. I have had a chance to speak with > the originator of the issue and he said a guru at a prior workplace > told he and his colleagues to be wary of ordinal. My colleague > believes this statement was made due to the docs indicating that > ordinal is likely to be of little use to developers and is primarily > for internal use. He has yet to get a response from the guru for > confirmation or other sources. > > BTW, my colleague cited Roedy's page on enums, not to defend his > position, but just as a reference. > > Thanks for all the good info and if/when I get a source for the > warning against ordinal, I will post it. Some of the real dangers of ordinals have been explained in this thread, including by Roedy in the message to which you responded here. -- Lew
From: Arne Vajhøj on 13 Apr 2010 20:07
On 12-04-2010 15:43, Todd wrote: > Thanks for all of the responses. I have had a chance to speak with > the originator of the issue and he said a guru at a prior workplace > told he and his colleagues to be wary of ordinal. My colleague > believes this statement was made due to the docs indicating that > ordinal is likely to be of little use to developers and is primarily > for internal use. He has yet to get a response from the guru for > confirmation or other sources. So you heard from someone that heard from someone that got the info from an unidentified source. :-) BTW, ordinal returning inconsistent values and ordinals being of little value for programmers are two very different things. Arne |