Thread: How do you use enum delcared in a class?

Hello,
I have delcared a class with enum as follows:

Code:

class TokenPrint {
protected:
public:
    static enum TokenType {TOKEN_ANCHOR=0, TOKEN_ARGUMENT_STRING=1, 
TOKEN_ARGUMENT_INT=2, TOKEN_VALUE_STRING=3, TOKEN_VALUE_INT=4} TokenType;
    enum TokenType tokenType ;

tokenType is a enum variable that can take a value of 5 values list above.
In my copy consturctor, the assignment didn't generate any compile error as long as I access it as a local variable.

Code:

TokenPrint::TokenPrint(const TokenPrint &_tokenPrint) {
	tokenType=_tokenPrint.tokenType;
	tokenType=TOKEN_ANCHOR; //compiles ok
        tokenType=TokenPrint.TOKEN_ANCHOR; //compile error
}

This creates a problem because I am trying to initialize the tokenType outside of the class functions:

Code:

tokenPrint.tokenType=TokenPrint.TokenType.TOKEN_ACHOR;  //compile error

I tried to move the static enum TokenType delcaration outside of the class, but it gives me duplicate definition. I can probably find a work-around using #ifnef
but it's just useful to keep all the declaration inside the class.

but it's just useful to keep all the declaration inside the class.

Why?
If you think of the enum as a separate type, it isn't useful to put it inside the class at all..

You seem to be thinking that an enum is somehow a member variable. It is not, so dot notation is completely useless here. You have to use TokenPrint:: to get inside the class namespace, just like you do for everything else inside a class.