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From: maxtal@Physics.usyd.edu.au (John Max Skaller)
Subject: Re: "Subclassing" Enums
Date: 1995/03/30
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references: <3l72bh$8tf@crchh299.bnr.ca> <3l75on$b9l@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM>
organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
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In article <3l75on$b9l@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM>,
Steve Clamage <clamage@Eng.Sun.COM> wrote:
>
>The new rule about const static members makes these work even more like
>enums in classes, including having class scope:
>
>	class base {
>		enum error_code { informational=0, warning=1000,
>				  error=2000, fatal=3000 };
>	};
>
>	class derived : public base {
>		static const error_code weekday = 100;
>		...
>	};

	Yeah. Except you still have to write:

	const error_code derived::weekday;

somewhere (anyhwere!). 

	I think this was not one of the better extensions.
 
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