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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> writes:
[...]
> Yes, but you seem to think enums are something special.  I used then
> simply to name some integers.  You probably do
>
>   #define DATA_SIZE 5
>
> but you could also do
>
>   enum { DATA_SIZE = 5 };
>
> Both are just ways to name a value (though they are very different in
> the details -- enums can name only integer values for example).

More precisely, enums can only name values of type int.

[...]

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