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From: robert.thorpe@antenova.com (Rob Thorpe)
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Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping
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Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org> wrote in message news:<m3fzdlyrh1.fsf@insalien.org>...
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> which is not possible in C:
> 
> typedef enum { YES, NO, MAYBE, MAYBE_NOT } assessment_t;
> 
> void P (assessment_t A) { }
> 
> int main () {
>   P (42); // no compiler check!
>   return 0;
> }

In C enums are interchangable with ints so there is no error, though
there maybe the compiler should give a warning.

A C++ compiler should check
I got:

bash-2.05b$ g++ -Wall fiddle.cpp
fiddle.cpp: In function `int main()':
fiddle.cpp:6: error: invalid conversion from `int' to `assessment_t'