C header file: tagged enumerations

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 4/26/16 7:40 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 26 April 2016 at 23:33:08 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
>> static if (win32msi >= 500) .....
>
> Won't work here because static if must have a complete declaration
> inside it, and the C pattern only has a few elements of the whole inside
> each #if.
>
> D doesn't handle this C pattern well... you basically have to rewrite
> the whole thing for each version.
>
> Personally, I just decide to support all of them and say the older
> versions with less declarations are less supported...

Hm... doesn't the way the enumeration assigns values mean that on older 
systems, the values would change for the same symbols?

BTW, this enumeration looks terrible. I would flag this as blocking if 
it were a code review, even in C++.

-Steve