Implicit enum conversions are a stupid PITA

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 03/28/2010 06:03 PM, bearophile wrote:
>> The construct defines at compile-time a property for each given name.<
>
> A costant (enum) not a property, sorry.
>
> So this:
> alias Flags!q{ A, B, C } Foo;
>
> Becomes equivalent to:
>
> struct Foo {
>      enum uint A = 1<<  0;
>      enum uint B = 1<<  1;
>      enum uint C = 1<<  2;
>
>      private uint _data;
>
>      // operators defined here, with full input tests:
>      // =   ==   |    |=    in&    &=  opBool
>      ...
> }
>
>
> Foo f = Foo.A | Foo.B;
> Now f._data contains the or of the two flags...
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

Yah but let's say A|B is used very often so I want to call it AB. How do 
I specify in the definition of Flags such a definition? I guess

alias Flags!q{ A, B, C, AB = A|B } Foo;

which makes parsing rather difficult.

Andrei