From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: HELP: renames and enum values
Date: 2000/04/13
Date: 2000-04-13T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8d56ti$3sd$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38F5D6F9.5B8892F2@bton.ac.uk
In article <38F5D6F9.5B8892F2@bton.ac.uk>,
John English <je@bton.ac.uk> wrote:
> function Enum_Literal return Enum_Type renames
Other_Enum_Literal;
>
> Now, that *really* confuses them, and none of them would ever
be
> able to guess it without being told!
I have a different view of learning languages, I do not expect
my students to "guess" anything about a language, I expect them
to learn rules and apply them.
I agree that this rule might be non-intuitive if the basic
semantics of enumeration literals has not been presented in
a clear manner.
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2000-04-07 0:00 ` HELP: renames and enum values Samuel T. Harris
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Al Johnston
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-09 0:00 ` dale
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-10 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
2000-04-13 0:00 ` John English
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2000-04-14 0:00 ` John English
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-04-14 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-04-10 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-04-11 0:00 ` Al Johnston
2000-04-10 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-04-11 0:00 ` Al Johnston
2000-04-11 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
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