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From: dan@oresoft.uu.net (Daniel Elbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: enums declared in class scope
Message-ID: <1990Jan9.232522.3215@oresoft.uu.net>
Date: 9 Jan 90 23:25:22 GMT
References: <10210@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Reply-To: dan@oresoft.uu.net (Daniel Elbaum)
Organization: Oregon Software, Portland, OR
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In article <10210@saturn.ucsc.edu> daniel@saturn.ucsc.edu (Daniel Edelson) writes:
:It says in section 3.2 of the c++ 2.0 reference that
:the name of an enumeration type declared in class scope
:belongs to the enclosing scope. What about the names of
:the enumerators, what scope do they belong to?

:Cfront 2.0 and G++ says the enumerators have class scope,
:while Oregon C++ says the enumerators have the same scope
:as the enumeration type.

:daniel
:daniel@cis.ucsc.edu


The enumerators have class scope and can be used outside of the
class only by qualifying the enumerator with the class name.

This overly generous scoping is a bug in occ version 1.2 which
we hope to have fixed by the upcoming release of 2.0.

-- 
Perl: the Whack-A-Mole of programming lanugages.

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