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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:38:04 -0500
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On 2/17/2011 1:53 PM, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> No, it only means that enumerations in C++ really are integers
 > and not enumerations.

This was a choice made by the people who incorporated enumerations
into C. They felt it important that enumerations should be usable
in the style of bitmasks. And what does it mean for something to be
"really an integer"? Ada 'Pos and 'Val attributes certainly give
the illusion that Ada enumerators are integers too!