Question

I’m new to C and I have been reading concepts and example code in a book titled “C Programming in easy steps”.

So, I type in this example program, character for character:

#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
    /* declare a sequence of constants */
    enum colors
    { RED=1,YELLOW,GREEN,BROWN,BLUE,PINK,BLACK };

    /* Declare a variable of the enumerated data type */

    enum colors fingers;

    /* assign valid constants from the colors list */
    /* -----THIS IS THE ERROR LINE BELOW---------- */

    fingers = (enum colors) PINK + BROWN;


    /*-display the value in the variable */
    printf("Value: %d\n", fingers);

    return 0;
}

and I get this error:

13 C:\Users\mjohearn\Documents\pet projects\constant types NOT WORKING\enumtypes.cpp invalid conversion from `int' to `main()::colors'

For some reason the compiler does not recognize fingers.

If anyone could help me solve this problem, I would really appreciate it.

Answer 1

Try

fingers = (enum colors) ( PINK + BROWN ) ;

I believe the cast operator binds more tightly than the addition operator.