Subject: [boost] [Better Enums] More complete release - feedback requested
From: Anton Bachin (antonbachin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-06-05 23:21:49
Hello,
I posted to the mailing list some weeks ago concerning a reflective enum
library. I’ve since done a lot of work and made a new release. I’d like to get
feedback from anyone that is interested.
The library can be found at: https://github.com/aantron/better-enums
At the risk of repeating myself, let me summarize for those who didn’t read the
original thread: the library generates reflective enums that support string
conversion and iteration, but with a nicer syntax than seen to date. Also,
in C++11, the reflective capabilities are accessible at compile time.
Since the original thread, I have made the library work with C++98 with the
variadic macro extension, tested it thoroughly on clang, gcc, and msvc, rewrote
the documentation, and made the interface (potentially) completely constexpr.
The reason I say potentially is that there is one slow feature, which is
disabled by default, but can be opted into easily.
There is a tutorial starting here:
http://aantron.github.io/better-enums/tutorial/HelloWorld.html
and a few examples of “advanced†usage, the most interesting one of which I
think is:
http://aantron.github.io/better-enums/demo/SpecialValues.html
(Thanks to Gottlob Frege for making a suggestion, which I adapted to improve
this example.)
I’d like to take this as far as possible towards solving the problems with C++
enum maintainability, and providing improved enum types that are as near to
first-class as possible. I would be very happy if you just tried this out and
let me know what you think and what problems you ran into.
Thank you,
Anton