On Feb 6, 2016, at 2:37 PM, Trevor Saunders <tbsau...@tbsaunde.org> wrote: > it is allowed if you do something like > > enum X : int; > > but it seems really pointless to support setting the size of something > when the language gives you a standard way to do that.
Yes, it is, as long as you never use header files, and multiple languages. :-) Unfortunately, those are vended features of C and C++. Once you have a C project that you want to be able to be used from C++, it then is handy to be able to do this.
