enum

[Dicebot]

On Tuesday, 8 April 2014 at 21:21:22 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/8/2014 2:16 PM, Dicebot wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 8 April 2014 at 21:12:10 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> 6. An integral type, some of which have names:
>>>
>>> enum Color {
>>>    Red = 0xFF0000,
>>>    Green = 0x00FF00,
>>>    Blue = 0x0000FF00,
>>>    Fred = 0x123456,
>>>    White = 0xFFFFFF }
>>
>> This is not an integral type but collection of named constants 
>> with shared
>> qualified path. Probably most common use case and one that 
>> should not have been
>> part of enum design but a separate concept.
>
> The thing is, I want to be able to name that type:
>
>     void setColor(Color newcolor) { ... }
>
> Having a bunch of named constants doesn't do that.

With current D type system this gives you pretty much nothing 
over `(uint newcolor)`. Still can have any integral value.