Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!apple!well!nagle From: nagle@well.UUCP (John Nagle) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: assigning int to enum Message-ID: <13131@well.UUCP> Date: 14 Aug 89 16:31:52 GMT References: <387@odi.ODI.COM> <9550@alice.UUCP> <389@odi.ODI.COM> Reply-To: nagle@well.UUCP (John Nagle) Lines: 14 In article <389@odi.ODI.COM> benson@odi.com (Benson Margulies) writes: - 2) You might be amused in how I got into this. For ease of debugging - work I am doing to c++ itself, I defined the type TOK to be a real - live enum of the token types. So my friendly debugger can print - token names instead of numbers. Well, I got about 50 warnings - about assignments of 0 or ints or chars to TOK's! So I was looking - madly for a way to preserve the debugging enhancement and shut up the - warnings other than to fix all of the offending uses of TOK in the entire - cfront source. Adding a language feature to support bad code is generally not desirable. John Nagle