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From: jeremit0 on 16 Apr 2008 06:44
I am having an issue with passing an enum as a default argument to a
class method. I have a class similar to

enum Method { a, b };

class A{
A();
void MyMethod(int i, Method m = a){
...
}
}

The compiler error I get says

error: default argument for 'Method m' has type '<unknown type>'

How can I use a default argument for an enum?

Thanks,
Jeremy

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From: Chris Uzdavinis on 16 Apr 2008 18:49
On Apr 16, 5:44 pm, jeremit0 <jerem...(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> enum Method { a, b };
> class A{
> A();
> void MyMethod(int i, Method m = a){
> }
> };
>
> The compiler error I get says
> error: default argument for 'Method m' has type '<unknown type>'
> How can I use a default argument for an enum?

That is valid code. Perhaps your compiler has a bug?

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From: Ulrich Eckhardt on 16 Apr 2008 18:59
jeremit0 wrote:
> I have a class similar to
>
> enum Method { a, b };
>
> class A{
> A();
> void MyMethod(int i, Method m = a){
> ...
> }
> }

I guess the problem is in the 'similar to', because this code:

enum method { a, b };
void function( method m = a);

...actually compiles fine. Provide the real code, stripped down to the very
minimum.

Uli

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