Strongly typed enums

[bearophile]

Adam Ruppe:

> I think I'm for this. If you provide a name with no base type,
> it should work like this.

Why do you suggest to disallow implicit conversions (and use strong typing) only if the enum definition doesn't specify a base type?


> Bearophile, have you considered making a pull request?

I think I am not able to do that yet.


> I imagine if any code breaks, it'd be easy enough to fix with
> changing to the item or inserting a cast.

Recently I have discussed safe enum conversions too. In some cases it's good to replace cast() with a to!.
http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=142862

Bye,
bearophile