Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!microsoft!jimad
From: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Operator "++" applied to enumeration types.
Keywords: Zortech ++ enumeration
Message-ID: <71504@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 91 19:01:38 GMT
References: <23651@well.sf.ca.us> <20065@alice.att.com>
Reply-To: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
Lines: 13

In article <23651@well.sf.ca.us> nagle@well.sf.ca.us (John Nagle) writes:

>      Is the operator "++" permitted on enumeration types in C++?
> Zortech C++ 2.1 rejects it as a request for an invalid type conversion.
> Zortech C 2.1 is quite happy with it, leading me to suspect this is
> policy, not a bug.  But Strostrup's book is silent on the subject.

By "Stroustrup's book" you seem to mean "The C++ Programming Language"
not Stroustrup's later and more detailed and more up-to-date
"The Annotated C++ Reference Manual."

I suggest you get the later.  Page 54 states: "The increment and 
decrement operators are not defined for enumerations...."