Enumerated types... what's the point?

[Barry L. Wallis]

In article <8578 at pt.cs.cmu.edu>, flc at n.sp.cs.cmu.edu (Fred Christianson) writes...
[ intervening text deleted ]
> 
>But if
>order is important the #defines may be better because you are immediately
>aware of the order by looking at the #defines whereas you (or at least me)
>don't tend to think of enum symbols as ordered.
> 
[ intervening text deleted ]
>----
>Fred

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. 
---
Barry L. Wallis			USENET: wallis at labc.dec.com
Database Consultant		Prodigy (don't laugh): DNMX41A
U.S. DECtp Resource Center	DECUServe: EISNER::WALLIS (not on the net yet)
Los Angeles, CA			"No one voted for me, I represent myself"
---