It would be nice to have a syntax for namespaces / one-off structs

[Beefster09]

currently, the only way to express a namespace of sorts is with something like this:

COLORS := struct{
	head_paused, head_play, head_record: u32,
	frame_label_synced, frame_label_future, frame_label_undefined: u32,
	light_stripe, dark_stripe: u32,
	held_input, held_input_border: u32,
	held_input_add_pending, held_input_add_pending_border: u32,
	held_input_erase_pending, held_input_erase_pending_border: u32,
}{
	head_paused = 0xff_c0c0c0,
	head_play   = 0xff_00ff00,
	head_record = 0xff_0000ff,

	frame_label_synced    = 0xff_a0c0a8,
	frame_label_future    = 0xff_606880,
	frame_label_undefined = 0xff_403838,

	light_stripe = 0x10_ffffff,
	dark_stripe  = 0x08_ffffff,

	held_input        = 0xff_c0d8e0,
	held_input_border = 0x80_202020,

	held_input_add_pending = 0xff_80ffb7,
	held_input_add_pending_border = 0xff_208030,

	held_input_erase_pending = 0xff_001040,
	held_input_erase_pending_border = 0xff_203080,
}

Unfortunately this is kind of verbose/repetitive. It would be nice to do something more like this:

COLORS :: namespace {
	head_paused: u32 = 0xff_c0c0c0
	head_play: u32   = 0xff_00ff00
	head_record: u32 = 0xff_0000ff
	// ... and so on
}

[rmc-coma]

Maybe are you looking for an enum ?

Source :

COLORS :: enum {
	head_paused                     = 0xff_c0c0c0,
	head_play                       = 0xff_00ff00,
	head_record                     = 0xff_0000ff,
	frame_label_synced              = 0xff_a0c0a8,
	frame_label_future              = 0xff_606880,
	frame_label_undefined           = 0xff_403838,
	light_stripe                    = 0x10_ffffff,
	dark_stripe                     = 0x08_ffffff,
	held_input                      = 0xff_c0d8e0,
	held_input_border               = 0x80_202020,
	held_input_add_pending          = 0xff_80ffb7,
	held_input_add_pending_border   = 0xff_208030,
	held_input_erase_pending        = 0xff_001040,
	held_input_erase_pending_border = 0xff_203080,
}

[Beefster09]

That could work here, but some issues with this:

• It only works if all the values are the same type
• You need to cast to raw u32 before using the values where I actually want to use them
• Doesn't work if you need the values to be mutable at runtime