Enumerated types_(re)

Sun, 8 Jun 1997 20:06:28 +0200 (MET DST)

According to Bernhard Tschirren:
> 
> Is it possible to specify the value of an enumerated type?

AFAIK, this is not possible.  Enumerated types are used whenever something
abstract is needed where the numeric value does not matter.

> I was trying to
> port a C header file which did something like this:
> 
>     typedef enum hello_everybody {
>         hello_error = -1,
>         hello_first =  0,
>         hello_second,
>         hello_third
>         ...

I would translate it into a forest of constants.

If everybody agrees that there should be an extension like this in GPC:
It's probably not so hard to implement.  Suggestions for the syntax?
Objections against it?

    Peter

 Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer
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