Flag proposal

KennyTM~ kennytm at gmail.com
Fri Jun 10 12:33:34 PDT 2011


On Jun 11, 11 03:30, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On 2011-06-10 09:15, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/94
>>
>> Discuss!
>
> I do have to admit that as much as I hate the idea of named parameters, this
> particular proposal certainly seems to be an argument in favor of adding them,
> which would tend to argue against making these changes.
>
> After thinking about it, I'd argue that it would be better to create a string
> mixin which created the enums for you instead of using the template as part of
> the arguments. e.g.
>
> mixin(YesNoEnum!"KeepTerminator"));
>
> Then all of the rest of the code is the same. You'd still use
> KeepTerminator.yes and KeepTerminator.no, but we avoided having to create
> duplicate enums by hand every time that we want this kind of variable. So, you
> still reduce the boilerplate code, but the usage is much less ugly.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

The problem is the 'YesNoEnum!"KeepTerminator"' will not be shown along 
with the DDoc of 'getLine'.


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