How to automatically convert strongly typed enum into int?

Strongly typed enums aiming to solve multiple problems and not only scoping problem as you mentioned in your question:

  1. Provide type safety, thus eliminating implicit conversion to integer by integral promotion.
  2. Specify underlying types.
  3. Provide strong scoping.

Thus, it is impossible to implicitly convert a strongly typed enum to integers, or even its underlying type – that’s the idea. So you have to use static_cast to make conversion explicit.

If your only problem is scoping and you really want to have implicit promotion to integers, then you better off using not strongly typed enum with the scope of the structure it is declared in.

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