How to automatically convert strongly typed enum into int?

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As others have said, you can’t have an implicit conversion, and that’s by-design.

If you want you can avoid the need to specify the underlying type in the cast.

template <typename E>
constexpr typename std::underlying_type<E>::type to_underlying(E e) noexcept {
    return static_cast<typename std::underlying_type<E>::type>(e);
}

std::cout << foo(to_underlying(b::B2)) << std::endl;

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