Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 20:12:08 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: sl <sl AT psycode DOT com>
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Subject: Re: enum problem
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On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, sl wrote:

> 	This is a C++ program.. I don't understand why C++ would act
> differently from C on this point since this 'feature' is derived from C
> in the first place.

C++ is a different language, not a superset of C.  (See section 8.3 of the 
FAQ for a somewhat funny demonstration of this.)  I don't know enough 
about C++ to tell whether enum handling is one of the cases where the two 
languages diverge.