Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pilchuck!dataio!bright
From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Conversion between enum and int
Message-ID: <2254@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 18 Dec 89 21:39:49 GMT
References: <1989Dec18.034022.19303@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu>
Reply-To: bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
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In article <1989Dec18.034022.19303@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> horstman@sjsumcs.SJSU.EDU (Cay Horstmann) writes:
<I just got around to firing up my Zortech compiler version 2.0. It flags
<as an *error* the following:
<enum Bool { FALSE, TRUE };
<Bool x;
<x = !x;
<	(1) Convert x to an int
<	(2) ! that int
<	(3) Convert the result back to enum Bool and stuff into x
Implicit conversions from int to enums are not allowed. Try:
	x = (Bool) !x;