-----Original Message----- From: loic.actarus.joly@wanadoo.fr [mailto:loic.actarus.joly@wanadoo.fr] Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 1:22 PM To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: ACT SPAM:[boost] [preprocessor] What syntax to present to the user

Hello everybody,

I'm trying to use the boost preprocessor library to allow the user to define "rich" enums, for instance enums that cannot be converted to int, whose values can be displayed in human readable form on a stream...

I think I have to use macro to ease the writing of such enums, and I ...

There is a better approach. Try to search "smart enums" within boost mailing list archive Roman