enum behaivor. another rehash of the topic

[Tommi]

On Sunday, 15 December 2013 at 12:40:53 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote:
> On Sunday, 15 December 2013 at 09:38:28 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>> Resulting in people giving name like TestT1, TestT2 as enum 
>> values in C++. As a result, you end up with the same verbosity 
>> as in D, without the possibility of using 'with'.
>
> I've usually seen the "namespace" or "struct "approach, eg:
>
> namespace CheckerBoardColor
> // or struct CheckerBoardColor
> {
>     enum Enumeration
>     {
>         Red,
>         Black,
>     };
> };
>
> This allows using "CheckerBoardColor::Red", which (IMO) is nice 
> and verbose. you can use "using CheckerBoardColor" for the 
> equivalent of "with" (namespace only).
>
> Unfortunatly, the actual enum "type" is 
> "CheckerBoardColor::Enumeration", which is strangely verbose.

I'd rather do this:

namespace CheckerBoardColorNamespace
{
     enum CheckerBoardColor { Red, Black };
};
using CheckerBoardColorNamespace::CheckerBoardColor;

auto v = CheckerBoardColor::Red;

int main()
{
     using namespace CheckerBoardColorNamespace;
     auto v = Red;
}

...and you get to have a nice name for the enum type.