No we should not support enum types derived from strings

[Imperatorn]

On Wednesday, 12 May 2021 at 02:56:49 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/11/2021 7:04 PM, deadalnix wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 12 May 2021 at 01:06:29 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> 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.
>> 
>> Y.f7 is of type Y. It's representation is string, not 
>> immutable(ubyte)[]
>> 
>> typeof(Y.f7.representation) ought to be string.
>> typeof(Y.f7.representation.representation) ought to be 
>> immutable(ubyte)[]
>
> That's what I said.

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