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Re: [pygame] enumerations?

To: pygame-users@xxxxxxxx, John <iceagelabs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [pygame] enumerations?
From: Bob Ippolito <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:38:14 -1000
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On Jul 20, 2005, at 3:55 PM, John wrote:

there has been alot of talk about enumerations on this page.My problems is this..what are enumerations to begin with?I've only been programming for a short time, and a definition or a place to get a good definition would be very helpful.

From <http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?enum> <programming> (Or "enumeration") A type which includes in its definition an exhaustive list of possible values for variables of that type. Common examples include Boolean, which takes values from the list [true, false], and day-of-week which takes values [Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday]. Enumerated types are a feature of strongly typed languages, including C and Ada.

Characters, (fixed-size) integers and even floating-point types could be (but are not usually) considered to be (large) enumerated types.

-bob

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