On 2013-08-17 21:54, JS wrote:
On Sunday, 18 August 2013 at 00:17:22 UTC, captaindet wrote:
On 2013-08-17 14:36, Jesse Phillips wrote:
Third you've declared a variable, bar, which will store your
enumerated value, 4. Variables are not compile time, even if the
value stored came from a compile time known value.
yep, it completely escaped me that these are 'normal' variables.
and i have realized now that i can make them known at compile time
the same way as is done for other 'normal' variables, by declaring
them const ;)
But if they are const then what good does that do you? Just use an
alias or enum in the first place?
to be honest, i have not found a use case ;)
highest priority was that i understood what was going on here...
how did i get there? i was looking for an easy way to get pragma(msg,...) to
print the given name for an enumerated value. in this example test2 or test4
instead of 2 and 4 - just like write is doing it at runtime. so i was playing
around with the different variants of enum to see if i could get it working
somehow.. and got sidetracked....
in the end i stuck to manifest constant enums storing the enumerated values and
found that
pragma( msg, to!string(foo) );
is doing the trick.
/det
