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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: enum type
Message-ID: <6311@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 21-Aug-87 13:02:52 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 21 13:02:52 1987
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2048@umn-cs.UUCP> smiller@umn-cs.UUCP (Steven M. Miller) writes:
>By the way does the ANSI C standard do anything new with enums? like
>provide succ(), pred(), lower(), and upper() functions that operate
>on enum types?

No, X3J11 decided that enums have to act as integral types, so
one can use ++ etc. on them.  If you want a general set or sequence
data type, you'll have to develop a package that implements it.