From: sparhawk AT eunet DOT at (Gerhard Gruber)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: enum problem
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 21:32:49 GMT
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From: Gruber Gerhard
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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 20:12:08 +0300 (IDT):

>C++ is a different language, not a superset of C.  (See section 8.3 of the 
>FAQ for a somewhat funny demonstration of this.)  I don't know enough 
>about C++ to tell whether enum handling is one of the cases where the two 
>languages diverge.

Not really. C++ is more stricter about this but I think that this is ok
because if you define an enum than you want names for your values and since
you didn't provide it this is an error. But I guess this is mostly opinion and
open to discussion.

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   Gerhard

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