It's difficult for someone with 0 knowledge of the language to really understand representation clauses. It does seem to be similar to enum values in C++?

It's difficult for someone with 0 knowledge of the language to really understand representation clauses. It does seem to be similar to enum values in C++? // Ada for Day use (Mon => 2#00000001#, Tue => 2#00000010#, Wed => 2#00000100#, Thu => 2#00001000#, Fri => 2#00010000#, Sat => 2#00100000#, Sun => 2#01000000#); // C++ enum Day { Mon = 0b00000001, Tue = 0b00000010, Wed = 0b00000100, Thu = 0b00001000, Fri = 0b00010000, Sat = 0b00100000, Sun = 0b01000000, }; As for the record representation, my understanding is that it is equivalent to having a normalized __attribute__((__packed__)), where smart compiler padding is disabled and you can arbitrarily decide the memory layout of your struct?