No we should not support enum types derived from strings

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 5/7/21 11:33 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Friday, 7 May 2021 at 15:25:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Enums derived from strings should not be supported as strings in the 
>> standard library.
> 
> I don't think the stdlib should special case much of anything.
> 
> Special casing enums is a mistake. If the user wants it treated as a 
> string, they can cast it to a string.

yes

> Special casing static arrays is a mistake. The user can just slice it 
> out the outside.

Yes

> Special casing alias this is a mistake. The user can pass what they 
> meant to pass.

YES

> The phobos templates should work like all other templates - on the exact 
> type passed. Other functions work with the normal overloading and 
> implicit conversion rules.
> 
> Kill all the special cases!

YES!!!