Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 18:47:12 +1000 (EST) From: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au> To: phk@freebsd.org Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: enum considered bad ? Message-ID: <199610170847.SAA09564@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> In-Reply-To: <2022.845535270@critter.tfs.com> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Oct 17, 96 08:54:30 am"
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Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > 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 ? Personally, I find them great for state-tables but I suspect that too many view them as being too reminiscent of Pascal .. "real programmers don't need names for things, they know them all intimately by number", michael
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