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From: rae@alias.com (Reid Ellis)
Subject: Re: Inheritance for enum types ???
Message-ID: <1991May26.082057.6735@alias.com>
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Date: Sun, 26 May 1991 08:20:57 GMT

Ron Guilmette <rfg@lupine.ncd.com> writes:
|So I was thinking... this sounds like a job for ... ta da!  Inheritance!
|
|Sure.  Why not?
|
|	enum light_color { pink, yellow, aqua };
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|	enum color : light_color { red, green, blue };

A problem with this is that inheritance denotes an is-a relationship.
That is, an instance of a derived object is-a base object as well.
This would not be the case with the above since a 'color' can have a
value that has no meaning for a 'light_color'.

Good idea, though.  I could use something like this -- especially for
returned status codes.

					Reid
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