ARPAVAX:arnold (11/04/82)
I, for one, cannot accept any solution to any problem using "enum"s. When we first got v7 UN*X, I was excited, since I always thought that this was one things PASCAL had over C. However, when I attempted to use it, I got in lots of trouble because of what I feel is a bug in the implementation, to whit: enum constants should be treated as int's. The problem is lint, mostly. I can't use enums to address arrays, for example, without generating lint error messages by the hatful. I had to regretfully drop enums until some more reasonable implementation found its way to the public. I really feel that enums are unusable currently, and that something should be done to fix them. Ken