Re: How about the future of VC++/MFC

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One other context: serialization of data in and out, where the actual text
of the enum doesn't matter, but being able to convert it from an external
to an internal representation does. The external representation is not
visible to the end user, so interationalization is less critical.
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True, this it is perfect for serialization (considering that serialization
should be locale-independent to begin with).
(see also http://www.mihai-nita.net/20051025a.shtml)


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