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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada Enumerations
Date: 1997/12/04
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Matthew says

<<Good advice.  For low-level I/O, an enumeration type is often not what you
want anyway.  What's wrong with a good old fashioned integer type?
>>

For one thing, it provides operations like addition, which are probably
meaningless nonsense.