enum type checking and switches question

[Tom Neff]

In article <1489 at crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen at crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>  Makinging [enum] work in a range checking manner would break a lot of
>programs, but I wish there was a way. Your compiler is not broken for
>failing to perform the checks, that's the way it works.

Lint, on the other hand, ought to be more than welcome to perform the
appropriate checks.  I think Gimpel caught me once on enum, but I dunno
whether or what other implementations do.
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