Contradictory justification for status quo

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 25 February 2015 at 21:06:54 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> This very conversation went on in a very lengthy thread a while 
> ago (note, for SDC, I just dropped (2), typeof(E.A | E.B) == 
> int and I consider it a closed issue).

If you keep the type, you can decompose the flag set when 
converting the value to string, see how C# does it: 
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/system.flagsattribute.aspx