https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1918
--- Comment #7 from Markus Elfring <elfring@???> ---
(In reply to Philip Hazel from comment #6)
> Old habits die hard!
How much does the use of enumerations belong to good development practices when
they are directly supported also by the C programming language for a while?
> It is indeed too late
I hope that more occasions will appear to improve the corresponding software
situation a bit more.
> Without changing pcre2_config() etc. there is no point in changing
> the #defines to an enum.
I have got an other view about this implementation detail.
Does anybody insist to use the affected symbols still as preprocessor macros?
> I am going to close this issue "wontfix",
Would an other tag be more appropriate?
> but I have noted the issue on the long-term wish-list so that it
> won't be entirely forgotten if there ever is another API/ABI break.
I am curious on how this application programming interface will evolve further.
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