No we should not support enum types derived from strings

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Fri May 7 11:55:53 UTC 2021


On 5/7/21 2:03 AM, evilrat wrote:
> On Friday, 7 May 2021 at 03:48:47 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> We should remove all that rot from phobos pronto.
>>
>> https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/8029
> 
> Just a commoner here, can you explain for stupid what makes enum string 
> a no go and why it should begone?

Heavy toll on the infra for a very niche use case with trivial 
workarounds on the user side.


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