Hi

I am proposing to add a implicit member function to the enum type or
enum class type whose purpose would be to return the literal used to
define each enumerated value. For example

enum class Color { red, blue, yellow};
Color color = Color::yellow;

cout << "color=" << color.literal()  << endl;

would output

color=yellow

1/ the literal fonction could be produced automaticaly by the compiler:
const char* literal();
2/ it should be generated only if it is referenced in the user's code
3/ when the value of the enum type variable is out of the range of the
enumerated value, the returned string could be "???" since "???" is not
a acceptable name for a enumerated.
4/ It does not break any previous code

The main interest of this function is to ligthen the explicitation of
the encoding of an user's defined enum, specificaly when the enum has a
large number of values.

FA

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