[Development] API style guide: scoped enum or not?

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

Hi,

On 16/01/2025 16:29, Marc Mutz wrote:
> On 16.01.25 15:05, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> On Thursday 16 January 2025 04:55:56 Pacific Standard Time Marc Mutz via
>> Development wrote:
>>> https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/6exEonP5o, maybe?
>> Yes.
> @Ville, @Peppe: do you happen to know whether this is supposed to work
> (using enum T when T is a typename from the template-initializer), or
> whether there's a proposal to make it work?

It is actually explicitly forbidden. The proposal itself says

> https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p1099r5.html#wording-changes

"The elaborated-enum-specifier shall not name a dependent type". That 
clause has been added deliberately, "why enum names must not be 
dependent types". But I can't seem to find the reasoning behind this...

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