Got a bug report on KotlinPoet regarding the follo...

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[egorand]

Got a bug report on KotlinPoet regarding the following scenario:

enum class RenderPassCreate(override val value: Int) {
    companion object
}

This is the code we currently generate, and it will not compile, with the error being Expecting ';' after the last enum entry or '}' to close enum class body. The compiler expects the following:

enum class RenderPassCreate(override val value: Int) {
    ;
    companion object
}

which in my opinion looks ugly. I wonder if there’s a hard technical limitation behind this, and whether the compiler could handle this better? Tried searching YouTrack and it doesn’t look like it’s been filed

[Ruckus]

How do you expect the compiler to know companion isn't one of the enum's values?

As a side note, what is the purpose of an enum without values?

[egorand]

both are good points

[Dominaezzz]

In vulkan, some enums have no entries yet and are reserved for future use.

[Ruckus]

@Dominaezzz Interesting. That seems... pointless, but that may just be because I've never done any Vulkan development.

[Dominaezzz]

It's done so they don't have the situation where they have to make a vkCreateRenderPass2(...) method because vkCreateRenderPass(...) doesn't take a RenderPassCreate parameter. It's also consistent with all the other vkCreateSomeObject methods that take a SomeObjectCreate parameter that have actual entries.

[Ruckus]

So you always pass in null for now? Or can you just not call the function yet?

[Dominaezzz]

Yeah, always pass null.