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Programming language: C++
License: BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License
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Latest version: v0.11.3

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README

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Reflective compile-time enum library with clean syntax, in a single header file, and without dependencies.

Better Enums code overview

In C++11, everything can be used at compile time. You can convert your enums, loop over them, find their max, statically enforce conventions, and pass along the results as template arguments or to constexpr functions. All the reflection is available for your metaprogramming needs.

The interface is the same for C++98 — you just have to use most of it at run time only. This library does provide scoped and sized enums, something not built into C++98.

See the project page for full documentation.

Installation

Simply add enum.h to your project.

Additional features

  • Uses only standard C++, though, for C++98, variadic macro support is required (major compilers have it).
  • Supported and tested on clang, gcc, and msvc.
  • Fast compilation. You have to declare a few dozen enums to slow down your compiler as much as only including iostream does.
  • Use any initializers and sparse ranges, just like with a built-in enum.
  • Control over size and alignment — you choose the representation type.
  • Stream operators.
  • Does not use the heap and can be compiled with exceptions disabled, for use in minimal freestanding environments.

Limitations

  1. The biggest limitation is that the BETTER_ENUM macro can't be used inside a class. This seems difficult to remove. There is a workaround with typedef (or C++11 using):

    BETTER_ENUM(SomePrefix_Color, uint8_t, Red, Green, Blue)

struct triplet {
    typedef SomePrefix_Color    Color;
    Color                       r, g, b;
};

triplet::Color  color;

    You can, however, use BETTER_ENUM inside a namespace.

  2. The macro has a soft limit of 64 declared constants. You can extend it by following these instructions. Ultimately, the number of constants is limited by your compiler's maximum macro argument count.

  3. In some cases, it is necessary to prefix constants such as Channel::Red with a + to explicitly promote them to type Channel. For example, if you are doing a comparison:

    channel == +Channel::Red

  4. On msvc, you may need to enable warning C4062 to get switch case exhaustiveness checking.

History

The original version of the library was developed by the author in the winter of 2012-2013 at Hudson River Trading, as a replacement for an older generator called BETTER_ENUM.


*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the Better Enums README section above are relevant to that project's source code only.