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In article <z#pml+=.thomp@netcom.com> thomp@netcom.com (Thom Philabaum) writes:
>Does Oberon support ennumerated types as in Pascal/Modula?

No. Enums as a special construct are history.

>If not, is there something that provides similar functionality?

There are several techniques.
1. Use constants and named types.
	CONST red* = 0; green* = 1; blue* = 2;
	TYPE Colors* = SHORTINT;
2. Use objects. A class to represent colors, and one instance
   per color.

There are probably other ideas too. And i don't want to hear any whining
about how you lose type-checking. With a minimum of care on the programmer's
part, this is a non-issue. 

>One of the boasts about
>Oberon is that is doesn't require oodles of memory/diskspace and yet you
>can't run it on what would seem to be sufficiently powerful machines.

But Oberon does want lots of screen real estate. It seems they only envision
Oberon as a desktop system. This is too bad, because I can easily imagine
a PDA based on Oberon.

-- 
Cheryl Lins, Apple Computer, Inc. Oberon-2 Paladin  lins@apple.com
"Oppression breeds violence" - Front Line Assembly