Bug 3999

[bearophile]

Lars T. Kyllingstad:
> Why not let to!int() do this?

Because if the enum is for example:
enum ulong Foo { ... 

You are casting an ulong to int and you risk losing bits of information. That's why Andrei has suggested a conversion template function, because it can (I don't know how) find the correct base type and cast the enum to it. Andrei is sometimes one step forward.

Bye,
bearophile