Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/28/84; site lll-crg.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!well!ptsfa!dual!lll-crg!brooks From: brooks@lll-crg.UUCP (Eugene D. Brooks III) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: if (X) <==> if (X != 0) (enums) Message-ID: <874@lll-crg.UUCP> Date: Fri, 27-Sep-85 20:34:09 EDT Article-I.D.: lll-crg.874 Posted: Fri Sep 27 20:34:09 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 2-Oct-85 00:51:13 EDT References: <118@mit-hector.UUCP> <2792@sun.uucp> <173@myriasa.UUCP> <57@opus.UUCP> <811@rlvd.UUCP> Reply-To: brooks@lll-crg.UUCP (Eugene D. Brooks III) Organization: Lawrence Livermore Labs, CRG Lines: 6 If you are using enums in such a way that changing the values that the various items {apples, oranges, pears} have then you deserve the SERIOUS trouble that you will eventually get into. Just because the compiler allows it, even an ANSI standard compiler, is not justification for doing it!