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Re: Integer32 vs. INTEGER

HI Andy,

I'd ask a more fundamental set of questions, which are:
  1) why even allow INTEGER?
  2) why not have type "Enum"
 
With these in place, the MIB module language would be easier to
understand. But oh, I forgot, "we" thought it would be too much
work when converting from the SMIv1 format to the SMIv2 format
to require that.

At 10:51 PM 1/20/2003 -0800, Andy Bierman wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I understand why the SMI and smilint discourages SYNTAX INTEGER vs. SYNTAX Integer32,
>but why is 
>   SYNTAX Integer32 (1 .. 10)
>allowed but 
>   SYNTAX INTEGER (1 .. 10)
>is forbidden?
>
>This seems like a CLR written for the benefit of MIB compilers.
>
>Andy
Regards,
/david t. perkins