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From: comeau@panix.com (Greg Comeau)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: 13 Mar 2005 09:20:19 -0500
Organization: Comeau Computing; http://www.comeaucomputing.com
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In article <1110700112.230910@athnrd02>,
Ioannis Vranos  <ivr@remove.this.grad.com> wrote:
>Greg Comeau wrote:
>>>Now that I am thinking of it, isn't it a value range?
>>>int main()
>>>{
>>>    enum four_val {a,b,c,d};
>>>
>>>    four_val x;
>>>
>>>    x = 4;
>>>}
>>>
>>>C:\c>g++ temp.cpp -o temp.exe
>>>temp.cpp: In function `int main()':
>>>temp.cpp:7: error: invalid conversion from `int' to `main()::four_val'
>> 
>> In C++ but not in C it's an error, but it can also be "invalidly"
>> cast to the enum.
>
>Yes, the subject in this thread is C++ and Ada. :-)
>
>Also casting this means that you know what you are doing, and thus not 
>excused for mistakes. :-)
>
>Thus you can't do that by accident.

*You* can not, but somebody else can :) :)
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