This article is a bit of an experiment. It describes my thought process while developing a small C++ feature, including failed attempts and all. Of course it’s cleaned up somewhat. The unedited reality would be a bit too messy to make a coherent article. So … Let’s talk about enums in C++. They are a helpful, easy to use little feature in the language, especially since enum classes added more type safety and scoped names back in C++11. For the rest of the article I’ll use the followin...
