DIP1044---"Enum Type Inference"---Formal Assessment

[max haughton]

On Wednesday, 26 April 2023 at 13:08:22 UTC, Jacob Shtokolov 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 26 April 2023 at 12:50:32 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>> Many other solutions were provided as well, including but not 
>> limited to
>>
>> - Using shorter names
>> - Using alias
>> - Using an IDE with autocomplete
>> - Using copy and paste
>
> While aliases and shorter names are always good options, 
> autocomplete and copy/paste really aren't as the end user of 
> the code is either yourself or another developer, so reading 
> the mess produced with copy/paste makes life much more 
> miserable :)
>
> I wish the `with()` operator would also be an expression, so 
> you could do something like:
>
> ```d
> auto f = with(Flags) A | B | C |D;
> ```
>
> But that breaks backwards compatibility ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/13776