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Re: redeclaration of enumerators?

From Bart <bc@freeuk.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: redeclaration of enumerators?
Date 2021-09-29 16:08 +0100
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On 29/09/2021 15:46, David Brown wrote:
> On 29/09/2021 16:03, Bart wrote:

>> Yeah, you're right. It would be tricky anyway, because it can't be
>> sorted using normal name resolution rules, since it relies on type info
>> which may not be dealt with until a subsequent stage.
>>
>> But also, you could have this:
>>
>>     enum E2 {A=1, B, C};
>>     enum E2 A, B;
>>
>>         A = E2::C
>>         B = A;
>>
>> Is the RHS the variable A (which contains 3), or is it intended to be
>> E2::A, which is 1?

> I checked on the "using enum" in C++.  It was added in C++20, and lets
> you write:
> 
> 	enum class colours { red, green, blue };
> 	colours my_favourite_colour;
> 
> 	my_favourite_colour = colours::red;
> 	using enum colours;
> 	my_favourite_colour = blue;

It took me a while to find something that supported C++20 (godbolt does) 
to try it out.

How it works is that if you use:

    using enum colours;

then you can't declare:

    colours blue;

So the ambiguity I pointed out can't occur.

It stops you using 'int blue;' as well. In fact, all those enum names 
become 'open', and you will get the same issues as you have in C with 
clashes with other identifiers and other open enums.

(Except that this feature allowes you to restrict those open enums to a 
particular scope.)

It doesn't help with my other example either: you can't use both:

   using enum colours;
   using enum lights;

as 'green' will clash; as well 'red', even though it they have the same 
value.

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