No we should not support enum types derived from strings

[Walter Bright]

On 5/11/2021 5:04 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Another unpleasant issue:
> 
>      enum Y : string { f7 = "%d" }
>      writeln(typeof(Y.f7.representation).stringof);
> 
> prints immutable(ubyte)[], not immutable(char)[]. So not even 
> Y.f7.representation is usable. Sigh.

The representation of a named enum is its base type.

The representation of a string type is immutable(ubyte)[].

It's consistent.