Implicit enum conversions are a stupid PITA

[bearophile]

grauzone:
> For your information, programming in Delphi (modern Pascal dialect) was 
> quite a joy.

I agree, D and C# are better, but Delphi and FreePascal are not bad languages to use.


> You must 
> have had only experience with early Pascal dialects... and then never 
> looked at anything that smelled like Pascal...

>From the first Pascals and the currently available FreePascal there's a night-day difference. It has OOP, templates, low level constructs, a standard library, good strings, etc. And your binaries are tiny. You can't judge FreePascal from the ancient Pascals.

Bye,
bearophile