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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: HELP: renames and enum values
Date: 2000/04/13
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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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