Enumerated types... what's the point?

[Chris Calabrese]

In article <1480 at mountn.dec.com>, wallis at labc.dec.com (Barry L. Wallis) writes:
| Is ordering defined on type enum? I have a book on Turbo-C (can't remember the
| title but it's published by Howard Sams) which says that ordering on the
| elements of an enum is undefined. For example, enum { JAN, FEB, MAR } months
| would make the comparison (FEB > JAN) illegal! I don't believe this is reality
| in Turbo-C, but, I'm currently 1700 miles from my PC and library. 

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If I remember correctly, ANSI says that the enums are to be stored as
ints and that they are ordered from 0 to n, unless the programmer
states otherwise (I think the syntax is enum {bar=5, foo, bugger ...).

Don't remember if (FEB > JAN) works, but ((int)FEB > (int)JAN)
definitely works.
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