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Enumerations

Enumeration variables are declared thus:

enum [enum_name]

{

item_name [= constant],

item_name [= constant],

item_name [= constant]

} [var_name, var_name] ;

where the optional var_names are variables declared to be of this enumeration type, and the optional enum_name is a name for this enumeration type which may be used in subsequent variable declarations of the form:

enum enum_name var_name;

Each item_name is used as a symbol for the integer constant value specified. If no constant value is given, it defaults to one more than the value of the previous item_name in the enumeration list. The first item_name defaults to a value of zero if no constant value is given.

An enumeration variable should only be assigned values listed in its enumeration list.

Last updated 10th October 2002, Peter Dziwior.