Re: [boost] Is there interest in a library for string-convertible enums?

Subject: Re: [boost] Is there interest in a library for string-convertible enums?
From: Rob Stewart (robertstewart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-10-28 17:10:20

On October 28, 2014 7:09:35 AM EDT, Felix Uhl <felix.uhl_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>So far, the only way to convert an enumeration value to a string is a
>lot of boilerplate code consisting of switch case statements for every
>single possible value of the enum.

As Niall noted, most of us have done that before.

>I’ve written a small header-only library that uses Boost.Preprocessor
>and templates to ease the definition of named enumerations that are
>convertible to and from strings.

That sounds interesting. Ease of use and compilation overhead are concerns, of course.

 >Currently, I am documenting the first version of the library to make it
>available on the Boost Library Incubator website,

I can hear Robert yelling, "Yes!"

> but I wanted to get
>some initial feedback from the developers mailing list, too. I would be
>glad to extend the library to a general extension of enumeration
>behaviour, like changing the generation of underlying values from a
>continuous increment to a continuous shift left by one, effectively
>making the underlying values binary flags.

That would certainly be useful.

What about enum classes?

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Rob

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