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From: Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada Smileys in C++ lib Conversion
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Brian Drummond expounded in
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>>About the only thing you could do (in C/C++) is to code
>>a macro check on the constants, but I don't think I've
>>ever seen it done in practice.  Only as a argument value
>>assertion check in strategic places.
> 
> Heh too.
> 
> I thought I was being really really smart years ago in C, when I
> decided to convert all those #defines to integer constants...
> 
> const int MC_CTL_LOCAL_C  = 0x80;
> and so on.
..
> - Brian

Another approach is to declare them as enums. But this
is unhelpful because they are all implemented as int's. 
Further, the switch statement doesn't tell you about the 
cases which are missing.

Warren