From: utzoo!decvax!cca!jfw.mit-ccc@Mit-Mc@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: C extensions
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.3881
Posted: Wed Nov  3 05:37:57 1982
Received: Thu Nov  4 04:07:41 1982

Date: 27 Oct 1982 10:35:25-EDT
The best way to hack the concept of

char * table [] = {
	word1:	"The first string",
	word2:	"The second sting",
 ...
};

is to declare an enum type just before (or after) the table, such that

enum tableoffsets {
	word1,word2,...
}

will cause word1 to be 0, word2 to be 1, etc.  This does not require a language
extension, and also resembles features in other languages (consider PASCAL, where
you can declare that an array's indices will ONLY be elements of an enumerated
type, should you desire).

John Woods
jfw@ccc@mit-mc