Interface "indexing"

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On Sunday, 6 September 2015 at 18:16:02 UTC, Prudence wrote:
> On Sunday, 6 September 2015 at 18:11:44 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Yes, I suppose an array would work, but realize that since enum 
> is a compile time construct, the dynamic array is not 
> necessary. And since your factories are all the time and always 
> will be(if you change anything you have to refactor a lot of 
> stuff).
>
> It seems all this stuff could be simplified a great deal. And 
> no one said you wouldn't have a switch. I'm not talking about 
> creating some tycheyon particles. I'm simply talking about some 
> way to hide the details(which, could be done with a string 
> mixin but at the cost of not being able to parse them and debug 
> them well).

As you can do an enum with any type, why not an enum of factory?