Accessing types by context

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On Wednesday, 29 June 2016 at 05:06:08 UTC, Hiemlick Hiemlicker 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 29 June 2016 at 03:50:35 UTC, Carl Vogel wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 29 June 2016 at 03:11:52 UTC, Hiemlick
[...]
>> Doesn't the with statement solve your problem here?
>>
>> with (myEnum) {
>>     test(A);
>>     test(B);
>>     test(C);
>> }
>
> Not really it's, only half the way there. Why not extend the 
> language the extra step?

I'm not sure I understand how it doesn't. Inside the with scope 
you could refer to myEnum members by their (unqualified) names 
alone. Isn't this the behaviour you're asking for?

As a pet peeve of mine, it's unfortunate that with: cannot be 
used as attributes can, to last until the end of the current 
scope without adding a new one.

> void foo()
> {
>     with(myEnum):  // doesn't work
>
>     test(A);
>     test(B);
>     test(C);
> }