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From: comeau@utoday.UUCP (Greg Comeau)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: const enums -- Lawyers opinions??
Keywords: const, enum
Message-ID: <1146@utoday.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 90 17:12:38 GMT
References: <963@rna.UUCP> <10197@microsoft.UUCP> <9925@ardent.UUCP> <10215@microsoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: comeau@.UUCP (Greg Comeau)
Organization: UNIX Today!, Manhasset, NY
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In article <10215@microsoft.UUCP> jimad@microsoft.UUCP (JAMES ADCOCK) writes:
>I would claim that if one creates an enum for the days
>of the week and then store the integer 10000 in an instance of that
>enum, then you've made a programming mistake -- even if it is permissable
>according to the language definition.  There are a lot of areas in C++
>like that -- where the language for historical or pragmatic reasons allows
>programmers to do things that are generally very bad programming practice.

At least the 2.0 spec of C++ is in accordance with your train of though
and therefore such an assignment is prohibited.

ANSI C does not mention anything about this as far as I can detect
(I could be wrong though).
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