use an enum to select strategy on comment parsing

json11.cpp

@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ struct JsonParser {
     size_t i;
     string &err;
     bool failed;
-    bool detect_comments;
+    JsonParse strategy;
 
     /* fail(msg, err_ret = Json())
      *
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ struct JsonParser {
      */
     void consume_garbage() {
       consume_whitespace();
-      if(detect_comments) {
+      if(strategy == JsonParse::COMMENTS) {
         bool comment_found = false;
         do {
           comment_found = consume_comment();
@@ -719,8 +719,8 @@ struct JsonParser {
     }
 };
 
-Json Json::parse(const string &in, string &err, bool detect_comments) {
-    JsonParser parser { in, 0, err, false, detect_comments };
+Json Json::parse(const string &in, string &err, JsonParse strategy) {
+    JsonParser parser { in, 0, err, false, strategy };
     Json result = parser.parse_json(0);
 
     // Check for any trailing garbage
@@ -734,8 +734,8 @@ Json Json::parse(const string &in, string &err, bool detect_comments) {
 // Documented in json11.hpp
 vector<Json> Json::parse_multi(const string &in,
                                string &err,
-                               bool detect_comments) {
-    JsonParser parser { in, 0, err, false, detect_comments };
+                               JsonParse strategy) {
+    JsonParser parser { in, 0, err, false, strategy };
 
     vector<Json> json_vec;
     while (parser.i != in.size() && !parser.failed) {

json11.hpp

@@ -58,6 +58,10 @@
 
 namespace json11 {
 
+enum JsonParse {
+    STANDARD, COMMENTS
+};
+
 class JsonValue;
 
 class Json final {
@@ -147,21 +151,22 @@ public:
     // Parse. If parse fails, return Json() and assign an error message to err.
     static Json parse(const std::string & in,
                       std::string & err,
-                      bool detect_comments = false);
+                      JsonParse strategy = JsonParse::STANDARD);
     static Json parse(const char * in,
                       std::string & err,
-                      bool detect_comments = false) {
+                      JsonParse strategy = JsonParse::STANDARD) {
         if (in) {
-            return parse(std::string(in), err, detect_comments);
+            return parse(std::string(in), err, strategy);
         } else {
             err = "null input";
             return nullptr;
         }
     }
     // Parse multiple objects, concatenated or separated by whitespace
-    static std::vector<Json> parse_multi(const std::string & in,
-                                         std::string & err,
-                                         bool detect_comments = false);
+    static std::vector<Json> parse_multi(
+        const std::string & in,
+        std::string & err,
+        JsonParse strategy = JsonParse::STANDARD);
 
     bool operator== (const Json &rhs) const;
     bool operator<  (const Json &rhs) const;

test.cpp

@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
 
     string err_comment;
     auto json_comment = Json::parse(
-      comment_test, err_comment, /*detect_comments=*/ true);
+      comment_test, err_comment, JsonParse::COMMENTS);
     if (!err_comment.empty()) {
         printf("Failed: %s\n", err_comment.c_str());
     } else {
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
 
     string err_failing_comment;
     auto json_failing_comment = Json::parse(
-      failing_comment_test, err_failing_comment, /*detect_comments=*/ true);
+      failing_comment_test, err_failing_comment, JsonParse::COMMENTS);
     if (!err_failing_comment.empty()) {
         printf("Failed: %s\n", err_failing_comment.c_str());
     } else {
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
       / / bad comment })";
 
     json_failing_comment = Json::parse(
-      failing_comment_test, err_failing_comment, /*detect_comments=*/ true);
+      failing_comment_test, err_failing_comment, JsonParse::COMMENTS);
     if (!err_failing_comment.empty()) {
         printf("Failed: %s\n", err_failing_comment.c_str());
     } else {
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
     failing_comment_test = R"({// bad comment })";
 
     json_failing_comment = Json::parse(
-      failing_comment_test, err_failing_comment, /*detect_comments=*/ true);
+      failing_comment_test, err_failing_comment, JsonParse::COMMENTS);
     if (!err_failing_comment.empty()) {
         printf("Failed: %s\n", err_failing_comment.c_str());
     } else {
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
         }/)";
 
     json_failing_comment = Json::parse(
-      failing_comment_test, err_failing_comment, /*detect_comments=*/ true);
+      failing_comment_test, err_failing_comment, JsonParse::COMMENTS);
     if (!err_failing_comment.empty()) {
         printf("Failed: %s\n", err_failing_comment.c_str());
     } else {
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
                                   comment *})";
 
     json_failing_comment = Json::parse(
-      failing_comment_test, err_failing_comment, /*detect_comments=*/ true);
+      failing_comment_test, err_failing_comment, JsonParse::COMMENTS);
     if (!err_failing_comment.empty()) {
         printf("Failed: %s\n", err_failing_comment.c_str());
     } else {