Interesting rant about Scala's issues

[Leandro Lucarella]

bearophile, el  4 de April a las 18:39 me escribiste:
> Walter Bright:
> 
> Thank you for the answers.
> 
> >Here's one:
> >
> >  enum Index { A, B, C }
> >  T[Index.max] array; // Error: Index.max is not an int
> >  ...
> >  array[B] = t;   // Error: B is not an int
> 
> In the last months I've grown a moderate desire for optionally
> strongly typed array indexes in D (as seen in Ada, but with a

What about:

enum Int : int { One = 1, Two, Three } // implicitly casteable to int
enum Symbolic { Dogs, Cars, Trees }    // not implicitly casteable (and
				       // maybe not even expose the
				       // internal value)

?

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