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Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:27:40 -0400
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On 4/21/2011 2:58 PM, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> Suppose you could do the following in C. I trust that
> C programmers would find this really cool:
>
> #include <stdint.h>
>
> enum Color {Red, Green, Blue};
> typedef uint8_t rgb_intensity;
>
> int main(void)
> {
> rgb_intensity things[enum Color]; // This Here
> return 0;
> }

That doesn't work for C because a variable of an enum type
may hold any integer value up to the number of bits taken
by the largest enumerator (with a variation for negatives
that isn't important here). The C enum concept is meant to
encompass literals used as bit masks as well as singular
values.