https://www.pistack.xyz/tags/enum/ Recent content in Enum on Pi Stack Hugo en-us Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-06-26-cpp-enum-reflection-magic-enum-better-enums-wise-enum/ Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-06-26-cpp-enum-reflection-magic-enum-better-enums-wise-enum/ <h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2> <p>C++ enums are great for type safety, but the language provides no built-in way to convert enum values to strings, iterate over enumerators, or query enum bounds at runtime. This forces developers to maintain hand-written lookup tables, <code>switch</code> statements, or preprocessor macros — all of which are error-prone and drift out of sync as enums evolve.</p>