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From: "Bertrand Augereau" <baugereau@ifrance.kom>
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Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language?
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> No, they're not.  Enums are simply names for integer values
> that can be assigned to integers, used in place of an integer in
> an expression, or passed as an argument to functions with an
> integer argument type.
Enum defines a new type.
I don't see the flaw of having an implicit conversion to int, as long as
there's is no implicit conversion to the enum.

> Furthermore, you can't get the name of an enum value as a
> string intrinsically from the type.  In Ada, the 'Image attribute
> returns the name of the enumeration value.

That is true, I love 'image