Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: enums
Message-ID: <1988Jul22.171612.6225@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1608@dataio.Data-IO.COM> <469@m3.mfci.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 88 17:16:12 GMT

In article <469@m3.mfci.UUCP> karzes@mfci.UUCP (Tom Karzes) writes:
>While on the subject of enums, here's something that's always bothered me.
>If you define an enum with a long list of values, a natural thing to want
>to do is determine the number of values in the enum...
>Does ANSI C provide a reasonable way to do this?

No.  X3J11 C (it's not quite officially ANSI C yet) almost didn't include
enums at all, since they are so obviously a crude patch onto the language.
It does in fact include them, in the simplest and stupidest form possible.
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