Re: [boost] Interest in a small Enum IO utility?

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-07 11:17:29

Marcus Lindblom wrote:
> Marcus Lindblom wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have some code that helps with defining iostream-operators for enums. 
>> We use this in our C++<->xml bindings.
>>
>> Basically, it's just two maps (string->enum & enum<-string) and some 
>> syntactic sugar. However, I happen to think it is quite neat and so 
>> figured it might be useful to other people too. (And it's always nice to 
>> give something back :)
>>
>> So, is this something that would fit in boost?
> 
> Ping? Am I way off here?

I think there'd be some interest.  Basically enums without a string mapping 
aren't much use -- and there was interest in boost_enum and other enum related 
helpers.

BTW, in case you aren't aware you can use boost.bimap so you should only need 
one map.

Jeff