Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!ncar!oddjob!gargoyle!att!ihnp4!ihlpf!nevin1 From: nevin1@ihlpf.ATT.COM (00704a-Liber) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: enums Message-ID: <5447@ihlpf.ATT.COM> Date: 27 Jul 88 15:05:04 GMT References: <1608@dataio.Data-IO.COM> <469@m3.mfci.UUCP> <1988Jul22.171612.6225@utzoo.uucp> Reply-To: nevin1@ihlpf.UUCP (00704a-Liber,N.J.) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 15 In article <1988Jul22.171612.6225@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: >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. By saying that the dpANS C version of enums is 'the simplest and stupidest form possible', you have implied that there are much better forms of enums around. Could you please enlighten us on to what these might be? Thanks, -- _ __ NEVIN J. LIBER ..!att!ihlpf!nevin1 (312) 979-???? ' ) ) You are in a maze of twisty little / / _ , __o ____ email paths, all different. / (_