From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b0d68c502c0ae6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: David Starner Subject: Re: Printing Enum Variable Re: Linux World Date: 1999/03/03 Message-ID: <36DE0007.5236CEA2@aasaa.ofe.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 451017250 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <7bfc2n$jl9@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> <7bhh26$r7c$1@remarQ.com> <36DCAC1F.430E2C5E@aasaa.ofe.org> <7bk4v8$kl8$1@remarQ.com> <36DDA761.7B4E8099@aasaa.ofe.org> <7bkrmm$ao1$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: SLUG Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-03-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote: > True, but complaining about C for lack of enumeration > *types* is a legitimate complaint. The named constants > provided by C are an inadequate substitute. Enumeration > types are an important abstraction, and their absence > from C is a significant missing capability. > > Calling something an enum does not make it an enumeration > type! Well, pulling out an old Pascal textbook, I don't see anything that Pascal offers enumeration types that C doesn't. Ada being a rather type strong language, it doesn't suprise me that you can do more things with enumeration types in it than in Pascal or C. I would hesitate to claim that Pascal or C don't provide enumeration types just because they don't offer all the dials and knobs that Ada does. -- David Starner - OSU student - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org If you want a real optimist, look up Ray Bradbury. Guy's nuts. He actually likes people. -David Brin