Re: Question about "enums"

Harald van Dijk wrote:
Ian Collins wrote:

venkatesh wrote:

u can make use of okloop whereever u want "1"
if if is not that please correct me


What are you replying to? Please quote the context.

Assuming you are refereing to:

enum loop { NO, YES};
enum loop okloop=YES;

You would use loop whenever you wanted YES. Use an enum for what it is,
if you wanted a synonym for 1, use a const (unsigned) int.


A const int can't be used in constant expressions.

Another oversight that should have been fixed.

I'll admit declaring
okloop as int in that example is probably not a good idea, but do you
have a problem with unnamed enums used to define constants too?

No, it's the only tidy workaround for the previous oversight.

--
Ian Collins.
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