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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: enum considered bad ?
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In-Reply-To: <2022.845535270@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Oct 17, 96 08:54:11 am
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> 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 ?

isn't it more a compatibility issue with old compilers which do not
support it ?

	Luigi
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