No we should not support enum types derived from strings

[Max Haughton]

On Saturday, 8 May 2021 at 21:54:28 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Saturday, 8 May 2021 at 20:06:35 UTC, guai wrote:
>>> The thing is making the range be of dchars doesn't help with 
>>> this.
>>
>> At least it won't induce more problems
>
> This is what Phobos already does and it has already created 
> more problems. It was a mistake to do it this way.
>
> But if string was just an opaque(ish) blob with a variety of 
> accessor properties it would work better then. The big mistake 
> Phobos made was trying to automatically do something and 
> causing friction by that automatic thing not being right.

The opaque blob model also allows SSO much more easily.