Hi all. I just did an interview and I'm a bit annoyed that I wasted 1/3rd of the allocated time because I was stuck on accessing an enum inside of a struct. It was a while since I used c . I don't think I can go into specifics of the problem.

Basically there was a struct, an enum inside the struct with a few states, and a function inside the struct. I was then supposed to write the functionality for the function outside of the struct. The problem is, I couldn't figure out in writing the functionality for the function on how to access the enum for a switch statement. Assuming the struct name is x, and the enum name is y, I tried switch(x::y), wasn't working, and other variations, usually " expected unqualified-id before ')' ". Maybe my whole approach was wrong, I don't know. There is NO main anywhere.

struct x{
    enum states { // not a enum class
        state1
        state2
    }

    x::somefunction(bool x) // dont remember exactly how declared here or below
}

x::somefunction(bool x){
    // some of my code
    switch(states) // This is where I had trouble
}

What I ended up doing was adding the enum as one of the function parameters at the end because I was about to run out of time. I didn't even have time to test, just saw it compiled fine. It wasn't clear whether I could change the already given template, so not sure if that was even allowed.

So how should I accessed that enum? Thanks. Really disappointed because I probably ruined my chances.