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

[Walter Bright]

On 7/21/2021 12:12 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
> enum expandEnum(EnumType, string fqnEnumType = EnumType.stringof) = (){
>      string expandEnum = "enum {";
>      foreach(m;__traits(allMembers, EnumType)) {
>          expandEnum ~= m ~ " = " ~ fqnEnumType ~ "." ~ m ~ ",";
>      }
>      expandEnum  ~= "}";
>      return expandEnum;
> }();
> 
> enum MyEnum { blah, bleh, bluh }
> mixin(expandEnum!MyEnum);
> 
> auto e = blah;


You & Patrick are da men!

This would make a nice bite-sized article showing off D's metaprogramming 
facilities.