I have a feature request: "Named enum scope inference"

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 29-09-2012 06:06, Tommi wrote:
> So, these would be the new rules we'd give to the compiler:
>
> 1) See if you can compile the code exactly the way you've been doing it
> thus far. If it compiles, great, we're done.
>
> 2) Else, if there are undefined identifiers that are passed to places
> where named enum variables are expected, try to see if prefixing those
> identifier names with the expected enum type name (plus a dot) would
> make the code compile.
>
> This wouldn't break any existing code, and to me the rule seems
> intuitive enough.

It's an awful lot of magic (it's not as easy in the implementation as it 
sounds like) for questionable gain when we have the with statement IMO.

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