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"Bertrand Augereau" <baugereau@ifrance.kom> wrote in message
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> > Not only is implicit copnversion to enum, but you can convert
> > values out of range of the enum definition.
>
> This is plain wrong.
> No implicit conversion from int to enum.
>
> enum COLOR
> { BLUE, RED, GREEN };
>
> void f(COLOR c)
> {
> }
>
> int main (void)
> {
>     f(0); // Wrong : doesn't compile
> }


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.