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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:02:03 -0500
From: Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>
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On 2/17/2011 5:54 PM, J-P. Rosen wrote:
> Le 17/02/2011 20:38, Hyman Rosen a écrit :
>> 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!
> Definitely not. They are just gateways between integers and enums, but
> enums are not integers. For one thing, the 'Pos may be different from
> the internal representation in the presence of representation clauses.

Yes, that's why I said they can give the illusion of being integers.