Accessing to enum values by '::' in C++

Question

I have class like following:

class Car  
{  
public:  
    Car();  
    // Some functions and members and enums  
    enum Color
    {
              


        

Answer 1

When I want to do something like this I tend to use a namespace and a typedef outside of th namespace (though usually I'm doing this globally rather than inside a class). Something like this:

namespace colors 
{
    enum Color 
    {
        Red,
        Blue
        ...
    }
}
typedef colors::Color Color;

This way you use the namespace to get at the actual colors, but the Color type itself is still globally accessible:

Color myFav = colors::Red;