Possibility to declare an enumeration

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DESCRIPTION

What does your feature request improve on? Please describe. It is possible to create a enumeration-like structure with declare but keeping order and numbers unique is kind of tedious, especially if the values are used for layout IDs. A direct enumeration feature would improve on this.

Describe the solution you'd like Add a possibility to declare an enumeration like one of the following examples:

declare enum(VAL1,VAL2,VAL3)
declare enum := {VAL1,VAL2,VAL3}
declare enum -> {VAL1,VAL2,VAL3}

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ANALYSIS

We'll use the third syntax declare enum -> {VAL1,VAL2,VAL,..}, where we also enable defining value starting points, i.e. {VAL1=10,VAL2,VAL3=2,...}. This can quite easily be implemented within void SymDefManager::createSymbol(const std::string& sCommandLine), where we proably will need an additional parser function to handle the value increments between each defined symbol. Careful: declare enum -> {} shall also be possible and simply declare nothing.

Add enum as specialval to enable the same syntax colour highlighting than true. Add it also to the documentation.

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