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From: rlk@telesoft.com (Bob Kitzberger @sation)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Source File Organization
Message-ID: <1208@telesoft.com>
Date: 28 Feb 91 02:45:10 GMT
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Rick Farris writes:

> typedef enum { A, B, C, D } CMD;
> 
> and a corresponding array of ascii representations :
> 
> char ltrs[] = { 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D' };

Yes, you asked for a C solution, but since this was cross-posted to
comp.software-eng I thought I'd point out Ada's solution to this.
The example below specifies a type 'color', and a call to a language-defined
attribute of this prefix, 'IMAGE. 

with text_io;
procedure foo is
  type color is (red, green, blue );
  my_color : color := green;
begin
  text_io.put_line( color'image(my_color) );
end foo;

All enumerated types have a corresponding 'IMAGE attribute, which implies 
that an ASCII (or EBCDIC ;-) representation of each enumerated value be 
present at execution time.  These image tables may be supressed at compile 
time.

	.Bob.
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