Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 12:26:14 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: cbird <cbird AT byu DOT edu>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: enumerated types overloading
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On Mon, 27 Jan 1997, cbird wrote:

> enum alpha {a, b, c, d, e, f};
> 
> in my header and when I try something like:
> 
> alpha letter = a;
> a++;
> 
> I get an error saying no postincrement operator defined or something
> along those lines.

IMHO, this is perfectly justified error message.  You have defined a new 
data type called alpha, but didn't define the meaning of the ++ operator 
on that data type.  C++ doesn't let you use that operator, because it 
doesn't know which code it shoule generate in this case.