Heba Waly <heba.waly@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm not against this approach as well, but as I mentioned above, we > need a list of keys to be returned by list_config_advices(), that's > why defining the constant strings will not be sufficient in our case. Sorry, but I do not get it. Either you use enum or a bunch of variables of type const char [], "list all of them" would need an array whose elements are all of them, so const char ADVICE_FOO[] = "advice.foo"; const char ADVICE_BAR[] = "advice.bar"; ... static const char *all_advice_type[] = { ADVICE_FOO, ADVICE_BAR, ... }; void for_each_advice_type(int (*fn)(const char *name)) { int i; for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(all_advice_type); i++) fn(all_advice_type[i]); } would be sufficient, and I do not think it takes any more effort to create and manage than using an array indexed with the enum, no?