Implicit enum conversions are a stupid PITA

Adam D. Ruppe destructionator at gmail.com
Thu Mar 25 11:57:18 PDT 2010


On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:18:57PM -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I missed this. There's no need for anything close to that. We all could 
> get "upset" regarding a post or a notion, not against the person airing it.
> 
> As far as the matter at hand of that thread is concerned, you mentioned 
> the possibility:
> 
> alias Flags!(ubyte, "do_nothing",
>                     "walk_dog"
>                     "cook_breakfast"
>                     "deliver_newspaper"
>                     "visit_miss_kerbopple"
>                     "wash_covers") Todo;
> 
> I encourage you to code that up and see how it swims.


It just occurred to me that such a thing could work on the use-side exactly
like the built in enum too, thanks to opDispatch.


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