Another defence of enumerated types

Authors:
Markku Sakkinen
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Jyväskylä, PL 35, SF-40351 Jyväskylä, Finland
Venue:
ACM SIGPLAN Notices
Year:
1991

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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.