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From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 09:57:47 +1000 (EST)
Subject: [TUHS] Array index history
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On Wed, 7 Jun 2017, Tony Finch wrote:

> You can use "manifest" constants for laying out a structure, e.g.
> 
> 	MANIFEST { car; cdr; }
> 
> declares car and cdr to have values 0 and 1. [...]

Which of course led to C's "enum" facility.
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