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Re: Question about enum

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On 07/10/11 02:49 PM, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> On 08-Jul-11 12:07, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> As a matter of style, it's odd that the author defined a "bool" type,
>> but then declared inword, which presumably is intended only to old the
>> values "false" and "true"", as an int.
>
> I found that odd as well but assumed the code originally had #defintes
> for true and false that were later "upgraded" to an enum.  I've seen
> similar things before.
>
> I wish C's type system drew more of a distinction between enums and
> ints, but to change that now would break too much working code.

C++ has many (but not all) of the same issues with enums which is why 
the new standard has scoped strongly typed enums.  Maybe something else 
that could cross-pollinate C?

-- 
Ian Collins

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