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From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@n_o_p_o_r_k_a_n_d_h_a_m.abyss2.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Enumeration representation
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 03:12:31 +0000
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On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 21:46:56 -0500, Robert A Duff wrote:

> RM-13.4(8) *requires* the internal codes to be 0, 1, 2...
> if no representation clause is given.
> So there's never a need to say "for Enum_Type use (0, 1, 2, 3);" --
> that's the default.  It is not implementation dependent.
> 
> And of course the position numbers always start at 0, no matter what
> the representation is.

Ah thanks,
Luke.