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From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Number of enums
Message-ID: <279DC67C.6ABD@tct.uucp>
Date: 23 Jan 91 17:23:08 GMT
References: <703@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> <1991Jan21.133917.18458@cbnews.att.com> <708@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL
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According to dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann):
>Of course, the optimal solution would be for ANSI to adopt a 'numberof'
>with functionality similar to 'sizeof', so that you could say 
>numberof(ThingList) to get the number of values.

Hardly.  Given:

    typedef enum {
	CORGE = -100, QUUX = -50,
	LARRY = 1, MOE = 2, CURLY = 4, JOE = 9,
	EX_PARROT = 32767
    } PLUGH;

Of what use would numberof(PLUGH) be?
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Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
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