How to know if the argument that is passed to the function is a class, union or enum in c++?

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Published on 2011-01-16T12:25:57Z Indexed on 2011/01/16 12:53 UTC
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I want to define an operator<< for all enums, to cout the value and print that it is an enum like this:

code:

enum AnyEnum{A,B,C};
AnyEnum enm = A;
cout << enm <<endl;

output:

This is an enum which has a value equal to 0

I know a way of doing this with Boost library by using is_enum struct. But I don’t understand how it works. So that's why, in general, I am interested how to identify if the veriable is a class type, union type or an enum (in compile time).

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