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- From: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Enum - a question
- Message-ID: <1590@nazgul.UUCP>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 05:36:33 GMT
- References: <1993Jan15.155047.351@uhura1.uucp> <1993Jan18.132258.1404@ucc.su.OZ.AU> <1993Jan18.171942.23923@netcom.com>
- Reply-To: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
- Organization: Zortech, Seattle
- Lines: 9
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- In article <1993Jan18.171942.23923@netcom.com> erc@netcom.com (Eric Smith) writes:
- /I've noticed that Zortech 3.04 makes its enums global even when they
- /are found inside classes, but it makes the enumerators local to the
- /class. I don't know why they made the enums global. It could be just
- /a bug, or maybe there is some subtle reason for it from their point of
- /view.
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- This was to be compatible with the older pre-nested class C++ compilers.
- The current 3.1 release has nested types in conformance with the ARM.
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