Re: enum safety

Army1987 wrote:
Ian Collins wrote:

Sard wrote:
Hi,

Page 39 K&R2 says

'Although variables of enum types may be declared, compilers need not
check that what you store in such a variable is a valid value for the
enumeration'

This is why (in my opinion) enums are horribly broken in C.
Not necessarily. For example, you can have an object which can contain
a number up to 10 as numbers, and 11, 12 and 13 with special meanings. E.g.
enum rank { ACE = 1, JACK = 11, QUEEN = 12, KING = 13 };
enum rank foo = 7;

That illustrates the problem perfectly, you declare declare a valid
range of values for rank and then legally assign some other arbitrary
value to it. Useless.

--
Ian Collins.
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