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

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>]

In article
<Pine.BSF.4.21.0101201408160.16701-100000@shell5.ba.best.com>,
  Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Robert Dewar wrote:
> > In article <94ce27$rrb$1@news.cis.ohio-state.edu>,
> >   carroll@cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark Carroll) wrote:
> > > 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.
> >                                             ^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > How about specifices, since not many languages support
> > this capability (C and C++ do not even have enumeration
> > types in the sense in which we are discussing things now
> > after all :-)
>
> Objective Caml, since version 3.0, has something close,

Well er ... exactly my point, not to many people are using
Objective Caml in their everyday programming tasks. So my
question still stands, the claim was that this feature was
being used in other programming languages (in common use),
and I don't see that ...


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