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From: "Bertrand Augereau" <baugereau@ifrance.kom>
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Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language?
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 16:29:09 +0200
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> Try the other direction:
>
>     enum Foo { Red, Orange, Green };
>
>     enum Bar { Mon, Tue, Wed };
>
>     int X = Orange + Tue;
>
> which shows that they are really just ints.
>

As I pointed out before, this is not a real case error.
If it accepted
Foo X = Orange + Tue;
it would be bad conception, for sure.

But standard C++ doesn't even accept
Foo X = Orange + Red;
!!!
So there's no way you make an non-intentional mistake, if you want to do
such thing as arithmetics on enum, you have to write explicitly:
Foo X = static_cast<Foo>(Orange + Red);


So I think this is not much weaker than Ada95, is it?
You think it's a major design flaw, I think this is (at worst) a minor one.