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Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> writes:
> A common uber-ugly trick (seen in Solaris headers) to solve this
> problem is:
> 
>   enum {
>   #define FOO FOO
>     FOO,

I always thought this trick was kind of cool, despite the slight
increase in ugliness for the enum definition.

-Miles
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