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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: enum type
Message-ID: <6334@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 24-Aug-87 14:41:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.6334
Posted: Mon Aug 24 14:41:49 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 25-Aug-87 03:59:43 EDT
References: <2048@umn-cs.UUCP> <6311@brl-smoke.ARPA> <2238@xanth.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2238@xanth.UUCP> kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>C enums seem to have foundered by mixing two actually incompatible
>constructs in an effort to be "cute".

It was not an effort to be "cute".  Don't you think X3J11 is aware
of the problems with C enums?  Go play with your Ada and leave us
alone.