* Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho:

> The anon enumeration trick has been an established C++ idom for years
> (ISTR, but cannot check now, even Stroustrup himself advocating it).

This was once desirable because you couldn't declare real constants in
classes.  Today,

  template <typename T>
  struct Foo
  {
    static const unsigned N = T::N;
    char bar[N];
  };

works and the enum trick lost its importance.


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