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From: abcscnuk@csuna.UUCP (Naoto Kimura)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Enumerated types in TP40
Message-ID: <1667@csuna.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 89 15:46:58 GMT
References: <363@lafcol.UUCP> <950016@hpcllmr.HP.COM> <7250@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Reply-To: abcscnuk@csuna.UUCP (Naoto Kimura)
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In article <7250@paris.ics.uci.edu> Alastair Milne <milne%ics.uci.edu@orion.cf.uci.edu> writes:
> ... (text deleted) ...
>    I have yet to encounter a way dynamically to determine the number of
>    values in an enumeration, short of having a dialect which provides a 
>    MAX function.

PASCAL/VS has functions (really more like a inline macro like sizeof)
that returns the maximum and minimum values of a type.  They were called
something like LoValue() and HiValue().  Another thing that it had a
method by which you can get the upper and lower bounds of an array.

> ... (text deleted) ...
>    Alastair Milne

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