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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <jacob@jacob-sparre.dk>
Subject: Re: syntaxic exploration
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 21:12:37 +0100
Date: 2017-12-25T21:12:37+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o9mm8t3e.fsf@jacob-sparre.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7c026086-1eee-4c65-9972-6d1f99a709ae@googlegroups.com

Mehdi Saada <00120260a@gmail.com> writes:

> More importantly, why would anyone use an enumeration type with only
> one value ? I don't get it.

Because it is planned that there may be more than one value.  Or because
the type had more than one value, but doesn't have it in the current
version of the program.

If you look at a program which isn't a teenager anymore, both of those
cases can apply.

Greetings,

Jacob
-- 
"The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness,
 Impatience, and Hubris"                       -- Larry Wall

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-12-25 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-20 17:28 syntaxic exploration Mehdi Saada
2017-12-20 17:32 ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-20 20:08   ` Niklas Holsti
2017-12-20 22:18     ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-20 22:45       ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-21  7:24         ` Randy Brukardt
2017-12-21  7:44           ` Niklas Holsti
2017-12-21  7:21   ` Randy Brukardt
2017-12-21 16:24     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-12-22  5:01       ` Robert Eachus
2017-12-22 21:15         ` Simon Clubley
2017-12-22 22:11           ` Niklas Holsti
2017-12-22 22:51             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-12-23  7:15               ` Niklas Holsti
2017-12-23 16:23             ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-12-24  3:37               ` Robert Eachus
2017-12-24 13:39                 ` Niklas Holsti
2017-12-24 13:32               ` Niklas Holsti
2017-12-25 13:40                 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-12-25 14:42                   ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-25 17:03                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-12-25 18:27                     ` Niklas Holsti
2017-12-25 20:12                     ` Jacob Sparre Andersen [this message]
2017-12-20 20:05 ` Niklas Holsti
2017-12-20 22:48 ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-20 23:39   ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-21  0:35 ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-21  7:18 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-12-21 19:23   ` G. B.
2017-12-21 23:46   ` bj.mooremr
2017-12-22 23:45     ` Randy Brukardt
2017-12-22 13:31 ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-22 18:00   ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-22 18:27   ` Niklas Holsti
2017-12-22 20:25     ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-22 22:33       ` Niklas Holsti
2017-12-23  1:47 ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-23  7:17   ` Niklas Holsti
2017-12-23 11:23     ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-23 11:39       ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-23 12:09         ` Niklas Holsti
2017-12-23 12:12 ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-23 12:16   ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-23 13:04     ` Niklas Holsti
2017-12-23 14:02       ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-23 14:46         ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-23 15:03           ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-23 22:11             ` Niklas Holsti
2017-12-24  0:55               ` Mehdi Saada
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