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: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Printing Enum Variable Re: Linux World Date: 1999/03/04 Message-ID: <7bkrmm$ao1$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 450997568 References: <7bfc2n$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> X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x16.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu Mar 04 02:38:15 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-03-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <36DDA761.7B4E8099@aasaa.ofe.org>, David Starner wrote: > I never meant this as an attack on Ada. It just that > complaining about C for lack of enumeration strings is as > appropriate as complaining about Ada for lack of a "?:" > operator. It's not that big a deal. 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! -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own