Two enums have some elements in common, why does this produce an error?

Question

I have two enums in my code:

enum Month {January, February, March, April, May, June, July,
        August, September, October, November, December};
enum Shor         


        

Answer 1

In C++11 you can use scoped enumerations to fix this this. This will remove the names from the global scope and scope them to the enum name.

enum class Identity
{
       UNKNOWN = 1,
       CHECKED = 2,
       UNCHECKED =3
};

enum class Status
{
       UNKNOWN = 0,
       PENDING = 1,
       APPROVED = 2,
       UNAPPROVED =3
};

int main ()
{
    Identity::UNKNOWN;
    Status::UNKNOW;
}

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