Why do people use enums in C++ as constants while they can use const?

Question

Why do people use enums in C++ as constants when they can use const?

Answer 1

It's partly because older compilers did not support the declaration of a true class constant

class C
{
  const int ARealConstant = 10;
};

so had to do this

class C
{
  enum { ARealConstant = 10 };
};

For this reason, many portable libraries continue to use this form.

The other reason is that enums can be used as a convenient syntactic device to organise class constants into those that are related, and those that are not

class DirectorySearcher
{
  enum options
  {
    showFiles = 0x01,
    showDirectories = 0x02,
    showLinks = 0x04,
  };
};

vs

class Integer
{
   enum { treatAsNumeric = true };
   enum { treatAsIntegral = true };
   enum { treatAsString = false };
};