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Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 11:10:05 -0700
From: Mike Waychison <mike@waychison.com>
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To: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>
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Subject: Re: share/private/slave a subtree - define vs enum
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Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Bryan Henderson wrote:
> 
>>Two advantages of the enum declaration that haven't been mentioned yet, 
>>that help me significantly:
> 
> 
> There is another one: with enums the compiler checks types for you.
> 

enums in C are (de?)promoted to integral types under most conditions, so 
the type-checking is useless.