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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On Apr 16, 5:44 pm, jeremit0 <jerem...@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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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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