Re: [boost] Enums: naming question?

Subject: Re: [boost] Enums: naming question?
From: Jeffrey Lee Hellrung, Jr. (jeffrey.hellrung_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-18 18:20:33

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Vicente Botet <vicente.botet_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm developing a scoped enum library that use an emulation wrapping the
> native enum on a class to get scoped enumerators.
>
> I need some traits, to get the native type from the emulation, and the
> coping class from the native one.
> In addition there is an underlying type that is used to store the
> enumerators. Next follows the names I have use in the library:
>
> native_type::type
> underlying_type::type
> scoping_type::type
>
> In addition I have defined some functions that make the conversions from
> these types
>
> template
> native_type::type native_value(ScopedEnum e);
>
> template
> underlying_type::type underlying_value(ScopedEnum e);
>
> I have defined all these under the boost::enums namespace.
>
> Do you have a better proposal for these (meta-)functions?
>
> If you need more details you can take a look in the sandbow/enums directory
> http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/enums/libs/enums/doc/html/index.html
>
> Best,
> Vicente
>
> P.S. Note native-type and native_value are yet in the doc as enum_type and
> enum_value.
> The tutorial is really in a very draft state :(
>
>
Perhaps you can summarize what these types and (meta-)functions are suppose
to be/do?  I trolled through the documentation but...it's kind of long for
me to go through the whole thing at the moment :/

- Jeff