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Another defence of enumerated types

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices archive
Volume 26 , Issue 8 (August 1991) table of contents

Pages: 37 - 41

Year of Publication: 1991

ISSN:0362-1340

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Markku Sakkinen

Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Jyväskylä, PL 35, SF-40351 Jyväskylä, Finland

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

I claim that enumerations, while of course not strictly necessary, are an elegant and useful facility in modern programming languages. I try to show that arguments recently given against them are weak at best and bogus a t worst, for general-purpose programming. Some related issues on types in programming languages are touched as well. These make it even more questionable whether Oberon marks progress or regress in language design.

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