Implicit enum conversions are a stupid PITA

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Clemens" <eriatarka84 at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>
> How about a command line argument to DMD which can be used to aid in 
> porting legacy C code? It would cause the compiler to generate a warning 
> (or error if you wish) for every occurrence of an ambiguous construct like 
> this. Once all such cases have been converted to valid D code and the code 
> compiles without warnings, the command line argument can be dropped.
>
> This allows D to escape from the C compatibility trap which has encumbered 
> C++ so much while still giving safety against subtle bugs while porting 
> old code.

I fear it's probably too late for that for D, but I do like it very much. If 
I ever make a C-style langauge myself, I'll definitely consider something 
like that.