I have a feature request: "Named enum scope inference"

[Tommi]

On Saturday, 29 September 2012 at 02:37:40 UTC, Alex Rønne 
Petersen wrote:
>
> Regardless of the conditions under which to throw an error, it 
> would be a breaking change.

I guess that's a bad thing. Hmmm... too bad.

Well... maybe we could make it so that variables of the requested 
enum type are looked up first, and if such is found (even with a 
same name as one of the enumerations), then that variable is 
used. Only if no variables of that name exist, then you see if 
the name correctly maps to a named enum literal, and if not then 
you see if you can map the name using the enum type name as its 
scope. I think that's quite a logical rule anyway, because if 
you've defined a variable of the correct enum type and pass it to 
a function, you quite likely meant to pass that variable to that 
function (instead of passing an enum literal).