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From: shap@delrey.sgi.com (Jonathan Shapiro)
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Subject: Re: Re^2: Is there a way to tell which derived class an object belongs to?
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Date: 5 Feb 90 18:09:31 GMT
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In article <3062@pur-phy> sho@maxwell.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Sho Kuwamoto) writes:
>What I'd like to see:
>1) A sort of extensible enum.  One you could add new members to 
>   in separate .h files.

For a change, I agree with a feature idea.  I recently wanted this
myself.  The single inheritance notion would extend naturally to
enums, and in several places would be very useful.  Even multiple
inheritance makes sense, assuming the compiler can verify that there
are no enumeration value collisions.

Jonathan Shapiro
Silicon Graphics