[Issue 3651] mangleof broken for enums

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http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3651



--- Comment #4 from Don <clugdbug at yahoo.com.au> 2010-01-28 01:05:28 PST ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> @Don: I'm pretty sure my bug report is correct. enums are the *only* type that
> behave different here. Further, if you get the mangle of a function or template
> that use enums as parameters, the enum gets mangled using the type name, not
> the base type.
> 
> Why do you think the current behavior would be correct? Why would .mangleof for
> a type return the mangle for a completely *different* type?

Because enums aren't strong types. typeof(item) is int, not foo. 'foo' just
seems to be an alias for int. (I think the existing behaviour is stupid, BTW).

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