Path: utzoo!mnetor!motto!dave
From: dave@motto.UUCP (David Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: How many values in an enum (Was: Enumerated types... what's the point?)
Message-ID: <96@motto.UUCP>
Date: 26 Mar 90 18:14:40 GMT
References: <1990Mar22.053148.10351@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <1990Mar22.164943.10459@utzoo.uucp> <1425@polari.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@motto.UUCP (David Brown)
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In article <1425@polari.UUCP> blm@6sceng.UUCP (Brian Matthews) writes:
>ANSI enums, on the other hand, are
>little more than fancy #defines (although you can: a - insert new ones in the
>middle without renumbering the others by hand and b - have the compiler tell
>you how many there are.)

How do you get the compiler to tell you how many values an enumerated
type has?  Does this just refer to defining a final value, like

enum days_of_week = {SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY,
		     THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY, N_DAYS_OF_WEEK };

or is there something more subtle?

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