No we should not support enum types derived from strings
Steven Schveighoffer
schveiguy at gmail.com
Fri May 7 17:16:06 UTC 2021
On 5/7/21 1:05 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> I think the problem here is that the language doesn't give you a good
> way to express that. So we rely on template constraints that both can't
> exactly express that intention, and where the approximations create
> various template instantiations that cause strange problems (i.e. if you
> accept an enum that converts to string, it's still an enum inside the
> template). Whereas the language
I forgot to finish this thought, got interrupted.
Whereas the language (with non-template parameters) does the matching
and conversion simultaneously without needing special cases.
-Steve
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