RE: ISSUE-13: [API] Exception codes

I agree too, updating the API means that we could extend the enum entries and I also see the enum choice as more 'elegant'.
But I also think that the use of an unsigned short code could be easier to handle and that it is less likely that a legacy app could break if a new code is added (probably it would fall in the default section of a switch). IDL enums don't have an associated ordinal so its representation changes in the different language mappings (some languages could map each entry to a class, others directly to a typed enum, an int...) so maybe its handling would be more difficult.

Anyway, I also wonder whether they would have done the same. The restriction about the use of exception inheritance is unfortunate.

Regards,
Rodrigo.