enums extension

[Mehrdad]

On Wednesday, 16 May 2012 at 04:22:18 UTC, Comrad wrote:
> Dear developers and community,
> I want to draw you attention to the topic which was already 
> discussed here:
> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/9to6n8$12d6$1@digitaldaemon.com
> and here:
> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/bl1n0e$1km5$1@digitaldaemon.com
>
> My question is: was something similar already done? are there 
> some plans to do that?

Dunno... but the way I'd use them would be more like:

enum AccessMask
{
	GENERIC_READ = 0x80000000,
	GENERIC_WRITE = 0x40000000,
	GENERIC_EXECUTE = 0x20000000,
	GENERIC_ALL = 0x10000000,
	//....
}

enum FileAccessMask : AccessMask
{
	FILE_READ_DATA = 0x0001,
	//...
}