How to avoid name conflicts for two enum values with the same name in C++?

Question

Enums in C++ have one major problem: You can\'t have one name in two different enums like this:

enum Browser
{
    None = 0,
    Chrome = 1,
    Firefox = 2
         


        

Answer 1

You can use enum class (scoped enums) which is supported in C++11 on up. It is strongly typed and indicates that each enum type is different.

Browser::None != OS::None   

enum class Browser
{
    None = 0,
    Chrome = 1,
    Firefox = 2
}

enum class OS
{
    None = 0,
    XP = 1,
    Windows7 = 2
}