Hello fellow boosters, I've recently come up with a way to use the boost preprocesor to generate a 'better' enum type. The following is an example of some typical usage. Is anyone else interested in this sort of thing? I'm hoping to get suggestions for how to make it more 'boost-like' in both its implementation and its usage. Is this very readable? Is there a place I can upload the code for people to peruse? #include <iostream> #include <boost/enum.hpp> #include <boost/foreach.hpp> #define foreach BOOST_FOREACH BOOST_ENUM(Level, (Abort)("unrecoverable problem") (Error)("recoverable problem") (Alert)("unexpected behavior") (Info)("expected behavior") (Trace)("normal flow of execution") (Debug)("detailed object state listings") ) int main() { foreach(const string& name, Level::names) { cout << name << endl; } cout << "1: " << Level::names[1] << endl; cout << "toString(Abort): " << Level::toString(Level::Abort) << endl; cout << "getValue(Abort): " << Level::getValue(Level::Abort) << endl; Level::type value = Level::Invalid; bool ret = Level::fromString("Abort", value); cout << "fromString(\"Abort\"): " << ret << ", " << value << endl; value = Level::Invalid; ret = Level::fromString("Debug", value); cout << "fromString(\"Debug\"): " << ret << ", " << value << endl; value = Level::Invalid; ret = Level::fromString("not in enum", value); cout << "fromString(\"not in enum\"): " << ret << ", " << value << endl; return 0; } With the program output being: Abort Error Alert Info Trace Debug Invalid 1: Error toString(Abort): Abort getValue(Abort): unrecoverable problem fromString("Abort"): 1, 0 fromString("Debug"): 1, 5 fromString("not in enum"): 0, 6 -Frank