Re: Is 'enum Colour : int { red, green, blue };' legal?

From:
"Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 5 Jun 2006 17:04:37 -0400
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<e62696$lkv$1@news.datemas.de>
Bo Persson wrote:

"Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net> skrev i meddelandet
news:e61uih$5o8$1@news.datemas.de...

Jorn Ronnow wrote:

I'm a bit confused here, since the help in M$ Visual Studio 2005
states the syntax for enum as:

enum [tag] [: type] {enum-list} [declarator];

So, it would be possible to write:

enum Protocol_t : unsigned char { ICMP = 1, TCP = 6, UDP = 17 };
struct IPHeader {
 // ...
 Protocol_t Protocol;
 // ...
};

It sounds like an M$ specific extension to me, but it's not listed
as
such in VS2005's help section "Microsoft Extensions to C and C++".
On
the other hand, it's not included in Schildt's "C++: The Complete
Reference" (4th ed, 2003).


First and foremost, good that you asked here. At least
knowledgeable
people will read and answer. AFAIK, the "[: type]" is non-standard.


But it is *a* standard, ECMA-372 The C++/CLI language

http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-372.htm

Confusing, isn't it? :-)


The only Standard relevant _here_ is ISO/IEC 14992:2003. *It* makes
no reference to the one you named ("ECMA-372", whatever that is). No
confusion here, AFAICT.

V
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