enum usage question
 

Hi everybody, this is my first post :) I have a question that someone here can probably answer pretty easily. Here it is:
I was looking at some of the Wasabi 3 SDK documentation, and I see that enumeration is used quite a lot. In a couple places I see enumerations that appear to assign a string to a value being enumerated. An example I came across in attribute.h:

namespace AttributeType {
enum {
NONE = 0,
INT = 'int',
STRING = 'str',
BOOL = 'bool',
FLOAT = 'flot',
};
};

I understand the enumeration of NONE = 0, but what is happening with
the other ones like INT = 'int'? I don't understand how this is used. I'd appreciate/love you for any explanations of this syntax...I searched around on the web (including the MSDN library), but I don't see this explained anywhere. Thanks in advance for any responses :D

code:


'abcd' == ('a'<<24)|('b'<<16)|('c'<<8)|('d')

--Brennan