An idea (Re: Implicit enum conversions are a stupid PITA)

[bearophile]

Walter Bright:
> Such rules are interesting, but I worry that they are both too clever and too 
> obtuse. Having a lot of such rules may make using D very frustrating because 
> you'll never know when you'll get hit by one of them.
> 
> I'd rather have a simpler, more orthogonal, and easier to remember rules that 
> may have a downside here and there rather than a complex web of seemingly 
> arbitrary ones.

I agree a lot, and I agree Don was wrong here.

In my posts I have already shown a better solution, that's similar to the C# one:

enum Foo {...} // normal enum, no implicit conversions, no operators
@flags enum Foo {...} // no implicit conversions, boolean operator plus "in".

Bye,
bearophile