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W. Dicks <wd@isis.co.za> (13 Mar 96):

> The system that I'm working often needs to know the string
> value of an enum. e.g. enum week{MON=1, ..., SUN} it; it =
> TUE;
> Then when this enum is passed as a parameter the function
> should return the string based on the enum. For instance,
> weekImage(it) will return "TUE". Is it not possible that such
> a functionality can be built into enums?

It is possible, but I would not appreciate it.
  If this were possible, it would make the program's output  
depend on internal variable/type names, which is generally  
not a good idea. Especially when you want to translate your  
program into other languages, it is easier to change this  
enum-to-string function (or even a seperate string table)  
instead of every line of code where this enum is used.

Claus

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