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From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Generalized serialization for enumeration types
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xorque wrote:
> 
> I'm designing a package that uses a lot of similar but distinct
> enumeration types.
> 
> At some point, those types need to be encoded to be sent over
> the wire. The encoding rules are simple:
> 
>   The enumeration values are converted to unsigned 32 bit
>   integers with the first value as 0 and increasing sequentially
>   with each new value. The 32 bit value is packed into big-endian
>   byte order.

'Pos for enumeration types gives values that satisfy this rule. They are 
universal_integer, and so may be used anywhere a value of your unsigned 32 bit 
integer type is needed.

I don't know if this helps you, however.

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