Implicit enum conversions are a stupid PITA

[bearophile]

Andrei Alexandrescu:
> For what it's worth, Walter and I were talking three years ago about a 
> "new alias" feature:
> 
> template Flags(new alias Names...) { ... }
> 
> "new alias" means that you may pass to Flags symbols that haven't been 
> defined. With that feature in place, Flags could be used like this:
> 
>   alias Flags!(do_nothing,
>                walk_dog,
>                cook_breakfast,
>                deliver_newspaper,
>                visit_miss_kerbopple,
>                wash_covers)
>       Todo;
> 
> No muss, no fuss, no need to stringize anything.

Maybe it's better to go all the way and just add symbols to the language, as in Ruby, Lisps, etc. I don't know. The #walk_dog syntax is not available to represent a symbol "walk_dog", I presume...

Bye,
bearophile