[boost] interest in a flag library

Subject: [boost] interest in a flag library
From: Masse Nicolas (masse.nicolas_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-10-25 20:41:18

Hi all,

This is the first time I post on this mailing list :).
I'm posting because i'd like to know if people would be interested in a
library to treat enum types as flags. I find that's something which is
lacking in the language since the introduction of strongly typed enums, and
I've since written some code in order to do this.
So far I've seen some discussion on this mailing list about that, but it
doesn't seems that any library have been written yet.
So do you think it is worth the effort of porting and documenting my code
so that it can integrated into boost, or not?

Regards,
Masse Nicolas.

PS:
For those interested, the code consists of a flag class, and overloads
operators like '|' or &.
It can be used like this:

enum struct option : uint
{
    none = 0,
    first = 1,
    second = 2,
    third = 4,
    forth = 8
};

static constexpr flags<option> var1 = option::first;
static constexpr flags<option> var2 = option::second | option::third;
static constexpr auto var3 = var1 | var2; /* type will be resolved into
flags<option> */
static constexpr auto var4 = option::first | option::second |
option::third; /* works too */

int main()
{
    std::cout << var1 << std::endl;
    std::cout << static_cast<uint>(var2) << std::endl; /* note that
static_cast<int> won't compile since the underlying type is uint */
    std::cout << (var3 & option::forth) << std::endl;
    std::cout << (var3 == var4) << std::endl;

    return 0;
}