enum to string

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Lionello Lunesu" <lio at lunesu.remove.com> wrote in message 
news:gpc4es$30a0$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> Is there any way to do this (preferably in D1) with reflection? (ie, 
>> without
>> having to manually create a conversion func/lookup for every value of 
>> every
>> enum.)
>>
>> ----------------------
>> enum Shape
>> {
>>     Square, Circle
>> }
>> char[] foo(Shape s)
>> {
>>     // ?????
>> }
>>
>> // Either one of these, I don't really care which
>> assert(foo(Shape.Square) == "Shape.Square");
>> assert(foo(Shape.Square) == "Square");
>> ----------------------
>>
>
> You got to give it to Walter: the code is pretty clean (for C++ code 
> anyway)
>
> Add the attached code to src\dmd\mtype.c, line 5025 (in
> TypeEnum::dotExp, after the #endif). This now works:
>
> import std.stdio;
> enum ABC { A, B, C };
>
> void main(string[] args)
> {
>   foreach(a; ABC.tupleof)
>   {
>     writefln(a);
>   }
> }
>
> prints:
> A
> B
> C
>
> Of course, I'm way over my head here. I've just copied the code from
> struct.tupleof to make enum.tupleof and creating a tuple of StringExps
> insteadof DotVarExps, whatever they are....
>
> L.
>
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