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Treat enum Types as Ordinary Types

You can use an enum type as you would use any other type: You can create arrays thereof, allocated it dynamically using operator new, define pointers to it and return it from a function:

 
   enum Dir   {    Up,    Down,    Right,    Left  };  Dir get_dir(); // use enum in a function's return type  int main()  {    Dir *p=new Dir(Up); // allocate and initialize enum    Dir dir[3]={Up, Up, Up}; // create and initialize array    dir[0]=get_dir();    delete p;  }

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