Command to find current enum depth?

Question

I was wondering if there was a command to find what at what depth of the enum counter (i.e. enumi, enumii, etc.) a command was at compile time. I'm attempting to create a \question command. What I have so far:

\newcommand{\question}[2][\value{enumi}+1]{\setcounter{enumi}{#1-1} \item \textbf{#2}}

Which works great for the first level (Note: requires the calc package). What I'm looking for is a command (or series of commands) to replace the \value{enumi}+1 with whatever the current depth is so that something like:

\begin{enumerate}
   \question{Whatever}
   \question[10]{Blah}
      \begin{enumerate}
         \question[2]{Stuff}
      \end{enumerate}
\end{enumerate}

would produce output like:

1. Whatever
10. Blah
   (b). Stuff

Answer 1

You need to know the depth of the current enumerate to modify the appropriate counter; \@enumdepth holds the current enumeration nesting depth:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{calc}

\makeatletter
\newcommand{\question}[2][\value{enum\romannumeral\@enumdepth}+1]{\setcounter{enum\romannumeral\@enumdepth
}{#1-1} \item \textbf{#2}}
\makeatother
\begin{document}

\begin{enumerate}
   \question{Whatever}
   \question[10]{Blah}
      \begin{enumerate}
         \question[2]{Stuff}
        \begin{enumerate}
           \question[6]{Other stuff}
        \end{enumerate}
      \end{enumerate}
\end{enumerate}

\end{document}