Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 00:48:09 -0700 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: phk@freebsd.org Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: enum considered bad ? Message-ID: <199610170748.AAA28017@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Thu, 17 Oct 1996 08:54:30 +0200
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> wrote:
> I've noticed that "enum" is hardly ever used in C programs, is this
> because people consider it a bad idea or because they havn't really
> got the swing of it ?
Actually, I happen to like it... I typically do stuff like:
typedef enum {
VAL1, VAL2, VAL3, VAL4,
} foo_t;
foo_t foo __P((int));
...or whatever...
The point is, I don't care want the return values are, so long as they're
unique. In cases where I care about the value, or, more specifically,
the _size_ of the type, I use #define'd constants and more explicit types.
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