coding
ron minnich
rminnich at lanl.gov
Wed Sep 3 21:46:00 CEST 2003
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, steven james wrote:
> It seems to me that working out the integer value of an enum is actually
> abuse of the type. The closest one should get to that is ++ or -- to step
> through enumerated objects.
yeah but The Man Himself, Rob Pike, came up with this idea, and Ken and
Dennis bless it. I figure if anybody can bless such a use of enum, the guy
who invented the language is probably the one :-)
I'll try to get some Plan 9 excerpts for reference.
ron
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