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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Printing Enum Variable Re: Linux World
Date: 1999/03/05
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Samuel Mize <smize@imagin.net> writes:

> There's another point about C-style "enum"s not being a true type.
> IIRC, the compiler can't easily handle multiple "enum"s with the same
> identifier in them.  Is my recollection correct?

It seems unfair to blame that on enums specifically.  C doesn't have
overloading, so of course it doesn't have overloading of enums.

Interestingly, C++ has overloading, but not for enums.  C++ has a purely
bottom-up overloading resolution, whereas Ada has a two-pass,
bottom-up/top-down resolution, which allows information from above to
resolve enumeration type names (and parameterless functions, &c).
Similarly, Ada can use a single syntax for integer literals, because the
context can determine what type is desired.

- Bob
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