std.random.uniform for enums

[Anton]

On Thursday, 13 February 2014 at 02:59:01 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
wrote:
> On Thursday, 13 February 2014 at 02:52:44 UTC, Anton wrote:
>> I guess I'm mostly confused because the description for one of 
>> the templates of std.random.uniform says "Returns a uniformly 
>> selected member of enum E.
>
> Oooh, I didn't know it had one of those, the documentation can 
> be so hard to read sometimes.
>
> Try this then:
>
> auto randomAnimal = uniform!Animals();
>
>
> The enum E there is a compile time argument, so you need the ! 
> in there to pass them. (uniform(Animal) would be trying to send 
> it as a run time argument which doesn't work for types)

Yeah, the docs aren't the easiest to read, especially coming from
Python.

But thanks a lot for your help. Using ! does the trick.