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From: plyon@ut-emx.uucp (Paul Lyon)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Enumerations and C [was: named parameters and verbosity [was: Functions without side effects]]
Message-ID: <51418@ut-emx.uucp>
Date: 29 Jun 91 04:09:16 GMT
References: <1991Jun27.232437.@	<1991Jun27.232437.UUCP> <1991Jun29.001927.18591@netcom.COM>
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So far as I know, enumerations, along with function prototypes, and 
several other things, were adopted into ANSI C after having first
been included in C++. Competitive pressures in the MS-DOS market led
to these features being included in MS-DOS C compilers some 4 or 5 
years ago, but ANSI compliant UNIX C compilers seem still to be 
rather the exception than the rule. But, in reply to Amanda Walker,
10 years ago is pushing it, don't you think?

Paul Lyon