Implicit enum conversions are a stupid PITA

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message 
news:hogc1o$2pm8$1 at digitalmars.com...
> On 03/25/2010 01:33 PM, bearophile wrote:
>> Andrei Alexandrescu:
>>
>>> I encourage you to code that up and see how it swims.<
>>
>> The idea of using that syntax gives me nausea, I can't use that even
>> if I implement that myself.
>
> I believe you're exaggerating.
>

Of course he is. But using mixins to "solve" every need that comes up is a 
bit like saying "LISP does everything!" even though LISP gets that flexibity 
by imposing a butt-ugly syntax ("Lost In Stupid Parenthesis", anyone?) on 
pretty much everything.