"name" of enum members

[spir]

On 02/11/2011 07:39 PM, bearophile wrote:
> spir:
>
>> To denote a member 'm' of an enum 'e', one needs to write "e.m". Is there a way
>> to get back this "name"?
>
> Is this good enough?
>
> import std.stdio, std.conv;
> enum TC { A, B, C }
> void main() {
>      writeln(typeof(TC.A).stringof, ".", to!string(TC.A));
> }

Yo! thank you Bearophile.

>> A bit strange that '%s' does not produce the same string as to!string...
>
> I agree, I have a bug report on this.

More generally, I think default %s and to!string should systematically output 
the literal notation able to reconstruct the string'ed element. I mean, as far 
as possible without getting into much complication (in cases of struct or class 
object, which often have data members not read in by the contructor).
About the annoying case of strings, is there a tool func somewhere to 
reconstruct an escaped version? (like eg when the string holds '"') I have 
looked for it without success. Else, i guess Phobos very much needs that. (the 
equivalent of python's %r or repr() for strings)

Simple, clear, consistent, informative, useful.

Denis
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