Re: Unintuitive semantics for enum

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From: Andrew Koenig
Date: Sun, 25 May 1986 14:40

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> I just tripped over another "feature" of c++.
> This feature is that enums are not types.  
> They look like types but really are synonomous with sets of 
> constant definitions and typedefs of ints.  This strikes me as wrong.

Maybe so, but that's how C does it and C++ is just trying
to be compatible here.

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