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From: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
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Subject: Re: enum considered bad ?
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