Extending enum in derived classes

Question

I have a class hierarchy, and each class in it has an exception class, derived in a parallel hierarchy, thus...

class Base
{
};

class Derived : public Base
{
};         


        

Answer 1

There isn't any native way to do it, but it can be easily done with defines: Here is little example:

#define _Enum1_values a, b, c, d

enum Enum1 {
    _Enum1_values
};

// there aren't strongly typed enums
class A {
public:
    enum Enum2 {
        _Enum1_values, e, f
    };
};

// there aren't strongly typed enums
class B {
public:
    enum Enum3 {
        _Enum1_values, g, h
    };
};


#include 

int main() {
    std::cout << "Enum1::d: " << d << '\n';
    std::cout << "Enum2::d: " << A::d << '\n';
    std::cout << "Enum2::e: " << A::e << '\n';
    std::cout << "WARNING!!!:  Enum2::e == Enum3::g: " << (A::e == B::g) << '\n';
}