Traditional enums have several problems:
1. SCOPE: Enumerations export their enumerators to the surrounding scope. This has two drawbacks. First, it can lead to name clashes, if two enumerators in different enums declared in the same scope have the same name; second, it's not possible to use an enumerator with a fully qualified name, including the enum name.
2. UNDERLYING TYPE: It is not possible to specify the underlying type. It is implementation specific, but it has to be an integral type; it should not be larger than int unless the enumerator value cannot fit an int or unsigned int.
3. CONVERSION TO INT: The values of enumerators implicitly convert to int.
The strongly typed enums do not export their enumerators to the surrounding scope, can have user specified underlying type of an integral type (also added for tranditional enums) and do not convert implicitly to int.
More info you can get here:
http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/cpp/article.php/c19083/C-2011-Stronglytyped-Enums.htm[
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