Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcmi!hdr!zycor!bill
From: bill@zycor.UUCP (bill)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: enums
Message-ID: <115@zycor.UUCP>
Date: 5 Aug 88 14:42:22 GMT
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}In <2404@boulder.Colorado.EDU> swarbric@tramp (Frank Swarbrick) writes:
}>In <11686@steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
}>>[enums should be in sequence, so ++ and -- can be used meaningfully]
}>
}>Personally, I would like it to be even a little more like Pascal.  [++ on the
}>last item should wrap to the first.]  This is like Pascal's succ() and pred()
}
}I rather doubt that this is true of Pascal -- I've never heard of it before --

In pascal, doing a succ() on the last item in an enum is a runtime error.
In pascal, doing a pred() on the first item ...

If your's wraps, it's broken. (Or maybe it's from Borland :-) )