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From: 6sigma2@polari.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How many values in an enum (Was: Enumerated types... what's the point?)
Message-ID: <1472@polari.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 90 18:17:36 GMT
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In article <96@motto.UUCP> dave@motto.UUCP (David Brown) writes:
|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 };

That's all I meant.  If there is something more subtle, I don't know
about it.
-- 
Brian L. Matthews	blm@6sceng.UUCP