Re: Extensible Enummerated types FW: When will next Ada revision be? (83, 95, ?)

[carroll@cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark Carroll)]

In article <t6jeim807fic0a@corp.supernews.com>,
Jeff Creem <jeff@thecreems.com> wrote:
(snip)
>Whether the extra complexity this imposes on compiler writes (or language
>learners) is worth the occasional
>convenience is certainly debatable.

FWIW, I certainly make use of it in other languages. In particular,
you need to be able to iterate through the elements of a type, but if
there are two enumerated types with the same number of elements, if
elements don't implicitly cast from one type to the other, then you're
more likely to catch bugs which involve someone using the wrong type
or getting parameters the wrong way around, etc..

Still, there are ways of simulating it too; maybe I use such types
atypically often.

-- Mark