Ancient enum?

In a recent post the use of enum was described as 'archaic' why would that be? Surely its a convenient way of listing a group of constants?

Originally Posted by rogster001

In a recent post the use of enum was described as 'archaic' why would that be? Surely its a convenient way of listing a group of constants?

It could have been me, stating that static consts are preferable for the purposes of template metaprogramming.

Everywhere except that context, there's nothing archaic about enum.

Perhaps it was about template metaprogramming:

Code:

template <int N>
struct Archaic
{
     enum { value = N };
};

template <int N>
struct Modern
{
     static const int value = N;
};