Concepts Of Programming Languages
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Author: Sebesta, Robert W.
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Chapter 6, Problem 6RQ
Program Plan Intro
Enumeration Types:
- An enumeration type is a user defined data type where all of the possible values named are provided in the definition itself.
- Defining and grouping sets of name constants is the method defined by enumerations types, also called as enumeration constants.
- It is mostly used in case statements and operations on pascal ordinals e.g includes ORD.
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