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0 pointsspacechild11mo ago0 comments

> But if given the choice, I'd choose the C-macro implementation (which is 30+ years old) over this, every time.

Why? The implementation is not pretty, but you only need to write it once and then it works for all enums. The actual usage is trivial, it's just a function call.

The C macro version is horrendous in comparison. Why would I want to declare my enums like that just because I might want to print them?

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madduci1mo ago· 2 in thread

Then why isn't part of the stdlib? Why should everybody maintain their own version?

spacechild1OP1mo ago

Just wait for C++32 :-D. After all, we only got `std::string::starts_with` in C++20 and C++23 finally gave us `std::string::contains`. It's a clown show, you just need to take it with humor.

madduci1mo ago

For comparison, in Java they do much more significant changes each release

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