No we should not support enum types derived from strings
Steven Schveighoffer
schveiguy at gmail.com
Fri May 7 18:44:26 UTC 2021
On 5/7/21 2:17 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> I think it was actually a mistake for Phobos to UFCS shoe-horn in range
> functions on arrays too - this includes strings as well as int[] and
> such as well.
The most common range BY FAR in all of D code is an array.
The end result of something like you allude to would result in nearly
all of phobos NOT working with arrays.
Just a taste:
int[] arr = genArray;
arr.sort(); // fail.
I don't want to go to that place, ever.
-Steve
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