Enum in C++. What's the deal with the numbers assigned to different values? For instance,

enum value { THIS = 0, THAT = 5, THOSE = 10 };

and I know if that's correct. So what can you use the numbers for? Is there a rule for how big the numbers can be? Thank you

you can use those values as constants (instead of #define'ing 'em).

the only limit is the size of the variable to hold the constant (maybe some compilers got an internal limit too, but that shouldn't be anything to worry about...)

enum's are just int's with special typing information for convenience in avoiding using numbers to which you haven't assigned meanings.

For example:

enum colors {red = 10, blue, green, black};

would be the same as

const int red = 10;
const int blue = 11;
const int green = 12;
const int black = 13;

It's just a way to type less.

yeah thats right !

It's not the same thing, because you should be able to get with the proper compiler settings a warning if you try to pass a plain int to a function that expects an enum colors.

who cares. as long as it works fine.

Oeps, forgot to mention that.