No we should not support enum types derived from strings

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Mon May 10 04:12:42 UTC 2021


On 5/9/21 5:04 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/7/2021 7:05 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> String s;
>> func1(s.bytes);
>> func2(s.dchars);
> 
> Already done:
> 
> s.byCodeUnit
> s.byChar
> s.byWchar
> s.byDchar
> s.byUTF
> 
> https://dlang.org/phobos/std_utf.html

Problem being of course that there's no UDT String type, only the crappy 
immutable(char)[].


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