enum to string

[Ary Borenszweig]

Lionello Lunesu wrote:
> 
> "Brad Roberts" <braddr at bellevue.puremagic.com> wrote in message 
> news:alpine.DEB.2.00.0903121755240.4513 at bellevue.puremagic.com...
>> That said, I don't think this really helps the desired usecase much.  
>> It's
>> useful, don't get me wrong, but still requires code to build up the
>> bi-directional translations.  Or am I missing something?  Seems to be
>> happening to me a lot lately, so I'm very prepared to be wrong here too.
>> :)
> 
> 
> You're not wrong :)
> The problem is that the foreach variable is not evaluatable to a 
> compile-time string. I don't know why, but I'll figure it out tonight.
> 
> I've also managed to convert an enum to an AssocArrayLiteralExp* (with 
> the name/string as the key and the value/int as the value) but it seems 
> that it cannot be foreached at compile time, even if it's a literal 
> expression. But hell, I've spent about 1 hour browsing through dmd's 
> code, so I'm pretty sure it's possible with a little more research.

Can you foreach at compile-time? I thought you could only do that in 
CTFE (or templates?). Maybe that's why it's not working. How do you do 
it to pragma msg the members of a struct?

I remember someone proposed "static foreach" some time ago...