PhobosWatch: manifest => enum

[Bastiaan Veelo]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Let me enumerate (!) the enhancements to enum:
> 
> 1) The enum 'base type' is no longer restricted to being integral types 
> only.
> 2) Members of anonymous enums can now be of heterogeneous types, the 
> types being deduced from their initializers.
> 3) .init, .min and .max have no meaning for anonymous enums, and so are 
> computed only for tagged enums.
> 4) For anonymous enum members, a type can prefix the identifier as a 
> convenience.
> 5) If there is only one member in an anonymous enum, the { } can be 
> omitted.
> 6) If .init, .min, .max or 'next' values are not required, then the base 
> type doesn't have to support the operations required to produce those 
> values.

You can regard me as a newcomer. In my view, enums are often used in 
support of switch statements. If you are loosening up enums so its 
members can be of heterogeneous types, will you be loosening up 
switch/case as well? If not, that would be confusing to me, as you will 
be able to switch on some enums but not on others.

Sincerely,
Bastiaan.