No we should not support enum types derived from strings

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On Friday, 7 May 2021 at 18:25:57 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2021-05-07 17:24, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
>> 0. We put a String type in the standard library.
>
> If you're going to make strings a user defined type, how are 
> you planning to support things like switch statements with 
> strings? It's not currently possible to have switch statements 
> with user defined types.

It really, really should be. Pattern matching and destructuring 
are two of my most wanted features in D.