Okay, back to game programming.... :-)
On 21/07/2005, at 12:20 PM, Magnus Lie Hetland wrote:
James Tauber <jtauber@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
Outside of software development, to enumerate means to assign numbers to.
Or to list/tell off one by one. As in enumerating the possibilities.
This means that an enumeration in programming languages is a type where all the elements have been enumerated (explicitly listed) -- not necessarily given a number (as in your explanation -- although that is also correct in many languages, of course).