Attributes on Enum Members: Call for use cases.
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jared771 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 28 19:38:44 UTC 2017
On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 02:20:15 UTC, Michael V. Franklin
wrote:
> On Sunday, 19 November 2017 at 13:35:13 UTC, Michael V.
> Franklin wrote:
>
>> What's the official word? Does it require a DIP?
>
> For those who might want to know, Walter has informed me that
> this change will require a DIP. I already have two DIPs in
> the queue right now, so I wouldn't mind if someone else wrote
> it.
>
> But, absent any volunteers, I would welcome all of you to reply
> to this thread with some use cases where you might find UDAs or
> other attributes useful on enum members. Deprecation and
> serialization have already been mentioned, but it'd be
> impossible for me to imagine all the different ways users might
> find this feature useful.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
I'd be interested in working on a DIP like this Michael, but I
also want to expand the scope to allowing UDAs on function
arguments as well. We should have some solid use cases in mind;
let's take this to private email.
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