Re: [boost] BOOST_ENUM proposal

From: Thorsten Ottosen (tottosen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-08 09:46:12

Frank Laub wrote:
>>As a related issue, it might be good to have the a similar struture
>>which you can use to map from the enum value to the string value and
>>vice versa. This runtime mapping should not require any heap-allocations .

> values to be sequential from 0.  This is where I want to go with
> BOOST_ENUM_VALUES(). It would require an extra column of data where the user
> would put their value portion. Then I could construct a map just as you are
> describing.

You kinda already have the values because the enumeration starts with 
value 0 and then increments each new item. Of course it would be 
nice/necessary to be able to specify the value if the defaults are not 
what one wants.

-Thorsten