-----Original Message----- From: boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-users- bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Tomas Puverle Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 3:07 PM To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [Boost-users] safe assign of int to enum

I wrote a library for "smart enums" that allow you to:

1) Keep a forward and reverse mappings between enums and strings (in fact, you can use multiple strings for a single enum value ;) This is done in such a way that you can't fail to update the string table if you add/change an enum and vice versa.

[Nat] I have long wished the compiler would support mapping enums to/from string. If you have a maintainable way to do that, I'm very interested.