[Issue 9821] Smarter conversion of strings to enums

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http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9821


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--- Comment #3 from bearophile_hugs at eml.cc 2013-03-26 16:59:43 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> Perhaps I'm being naive, but why not modify the current string-to-enum parse()
> overload so that it (1) first tries to convert using enum member names, as it
> currently does, and *only if* that fails, then (2) tries to convert the string
> to the enum base type?

This is a bad idea. It's much better to keep the semantics tidy, to avoid
troubles down the line.

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