Feedback Thread: DIP 1044--Enum Type Inference--Community Review Round 1

[Walter Bright]

With the syntax $e to look up an enum member, the compiler will need to search 
*every* enum that is in scope. Since one of D's strengths is whole program 
compilation, this can be slow. To speed that up, it will likely require that the 
compiler maintain a hash table of all the enum fields.

I.e. a parallel symbol table will have to be maintained alongside the regular 
symbol table.