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From: jagardner@orchid.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: enum type
Message-ID: <10360@orchid.waterloo.edu>
Date: Mon, 24-Aug-87 18:59:12 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 24 18:59:12 1987
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Reply-To: datanguay@watbun.waterloo.edu (David Tanguay)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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Keywords: bleech!

In article <2238@xanth.UUCP> kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>
>Looks to me like whoever added enums to C got a bit carried away when
>they included intiializers.  C already had a very nice and well
>#defined facility for named constants; the one created by allowing
>initializers with enum is redundant, and seems (from postings running
			   ^^^^^^^^^
>back a month or so ago) to have created a headache for the standards
>process.

#define XX_SOMETHING  1
     ....
#define XX_ELSE  295

Now insert a new definition at position 42. This requires changing all
those #defines. enums make it easy (you can also say XX_LAST at the end
and use that as the number of things in the enum (if you don't use =)).

David Tanguay