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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Certified C compilers for safety-critical embedded systems
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 14:47:01 -0600
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"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote:
> Robert A Duff wrote:
> > I don't much like that "useful fiction".  Seems more like a "strange
> > confusion", to me.
>
> That fiction combines with the ability to overload on return type such
> that you can have the same name (or literal) used as an enumerator for
> multiple types, and the compiler figures out which one is meant from
> context in most cases. It means that the ARM doesn't have to create a
> separate rule allowing and explaining this.
>
> But you already know that, right?

Bob better know that, or we'll have to revoke his language-lawyer license!
:-)

                   Randy.