Enum literals, good? bad? what do you think?

[Patrick Schluter]

On Wednesday, 21 July 2021 at 06:39:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
[...]
> But if you still want unqualified names, `alias` is the feature:
>
>
>     enum MyEnum { blah, bleh, bluh }
>     alias blah = MyEnum.blah;
>     alias bleh = MyEnum.bleh;
>     alias bluh = MyEnum.bluh;

>
> `alias` is an all-purpose tool for moving names from one scope 
> to another. Of course, one can probably do a mixin to automate 
> the alias declarations. It should be a fun exercise. Any takers?

mixin({
   auto aliasList = "";
   static foreach(m; __traits(allMembers, MyEnum))
     aliasList ~= "alias "~m~" = MyEnum."~m~";\n"
   return aliasList;
}());


>
> (As mentioned by others, `with` does it too, but `with` only 
> affects the scope it specifies.)