No we should not support enum types derived from strings

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 5/7/21 11:20 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On 5/6/21 11:48 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> We should remove all that rot from phobos pronto.
>>
>> https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/8029
> 
> What do you mean "not support"? The language has enums derived from 
> strings. Did you mean remove it from the language? That would be a 
> severe penalty.

Enums derived from strings should not be supported as strings in the 
standard library.

> Did you mean that Phobos routines just should error whenever you use 
> enum types derived from strings? That's also a severe penalty.

No it isn't.