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[Barry Margolin]

In article <469 at m3.mfci.UUCP> karzes at mfci.UUCP (Tom Karzes) writes:
>    enum tree {
>        oak,
>        elm,
>        maple,
>        birch,
>        willow,
>        cypress,
>        spruce
>    };
>
>Now I'd like to define TREE_COUNT to be the number of trees.  So I have to
>painfully count them, and write:
>
>    #define TREE_COUNT 7

How about

enum tree {
    oak, elm, maple, birch, willow, cypress, spruce,

    TREE_COUNT /* must always be last */
}

?  The only problem with this is if you're into strong typing; the
count of trees isn't actually a kind of tree.  But since you're
programming in C we can assume that you aren't fanatical about such
things.

Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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