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Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language?
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"Bertrand Augereau" <baugereau@ifrance.kom> wrote in message
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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.

No, a comparatively minor one.