mysql binding/wrapper?

[Ary Manzana]

On 4/30/12 11:57 PM, simendsjo wrote:
On 4/29/12 11:48 PM, dnewbie wrote:
> On Saturday, 28 April 2012 at 15:30:13 UTC, simendsjo wrote:
> stuff/blob/master/mysql.d
>> http://my.opera.com/run3/blog/2012/03/13/d-mysql
>
> I use it in a bank account application. It works.

> On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:19:29 +0200, James Oliphant
> <jollie.roger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Actually, it looks like the vibe folks are using my fork of Steve Teales
>> mysqln. I had hoped to contact Steve first, so that these changes existed
>> in one place.
>> https://github.com/JollieRoger
>> All of the changes exist in individual branches off the master branch.
>> Git
>> will merge these into one file fuzzily.
>> What they are is as follows:
>> seperatemain - split main() into its own file (app.d in vibe).
>> seperatemainwithport - main() using branch addporttoconnection.
>> addporttoconnection - add no standard port selection to Connection.
>> fixfordmd2058 - cosmetic changes to work with dmd-2.058.
>> fixresultset - allow the return of an empty resultset. When
>> iterating schema, test had no tables and would crash.
>> fixconnection - would only connect to localhost in Steve's code.
>> I have other changes that I haven't pushed up yet relating to NUMERIC and
>> null variants with a more detailed main.d.
>> Vibe.d looks interesting, I hope these fixes help.
>
> Yes, your patches has been merged. Of course it would be best to have
> everything database complete already, but I'm glad it's been merged
> as-is for now - it might take a long time (and has already) before a
> generic database interface is completed.

Looking at the code of mysql.d I see a big switch with many cases like 
"case  0x01:  // TINYINT". But then there's the SQLType enum with those 
constants. Why the enum values are not used in the cases? (and also in 
other parts of the code?)