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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: Enumeration representation
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> Having to define every enumeration twice could be a pain.
  You only need a rep clause if you want oddball values for the
representations, ie, you are dealing with communication with a
hardware device or another program and must adapt to its conventions.
If you are just using the enumeration internally you don't care
how the compiler represents it.