My thoughts & experiences with D so far, as a novice D coder

[deadalnix]

On Wednesday, 27 March 2013 at 16:52:27 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
wrote:
> Honestly, I hate that, too. The problem is that enum is 
> (unfortunately)
> intended to do double-duty as a bitfield so you can do 
> something like
> this:
>
> enum Options
> {
>     FeatureA = 0b0000_0001;
>     FeatureB = 0b0000_0010;
>     FeatureC = 0b0000_0100;
>     FeatureD = 0b0000_1000;
>     // etc...
> }
>
> // Use features A and C
> auto myOptions = Options.FeatureA | Options.FeatureC;
>
> That possibility means that D *can't* check for validity as you 
> suggest.
>

It can. myOptions is an int here, as Options would decay to its 
base type.