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From: mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney)
Subject: Re: Ada Enumerations
Date: 1997/12/04
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References: <662cs9$b34$1@newman.pcisys.net> <3486C057.6207@gsfc.nasa.gov>
Organization: Estormza Software
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Date: 1997-12-04T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <3486C057.6207@gsfc.nasa.gov>, Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov wrote:


>It looks like you should use an integer type for DataTypes, rather than
>an enumeration type.

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?

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