Managing error strings in C
Doug Gwyn
gwyn at smoke.brl.mil
Fri Jan 18 10:30:27 AEST 1991
In article <689 at caslon.cs.arizona.edu> dave at cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann) writes:
>I have heard arguments against using enum which go "it wasn't there when I
>started using C".
The arguments that I have heard are:
(1) It wasn't in K&R 1st Edition, so many existing compilers
don't support it.
(2) It was misimplemented in many compilers (notably some
releases of PCC), so it is difficult to use.
I agree that if you can count on enum support that works right, it is
a valuable language construct. For maximum portability at present you
might want to avoid using it, however.
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