On 27 November 2012 03:56, Walter Bright <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11/27/2012 4:30 AM, Manu wrote:
>
>> template isEnum(alias T) if(is(T)) {
>>
>
> It isn't clear what is desired here. Given:
>
> enum E { A, B }
>
> E is the enum tag name, which is quite different from the enum members A
> and B. And, the enum tag name is indistinguishable from the enum type.
> Furthermore, an enum member is indistinguishable from an enum value. So, I
> suggest instead:
>
> isEnumType
>
> and:
>
> isEnumValue
>
I accept. They seem like good names.
There's another you missed:
enum X = 10;
I would have imagined this would be semantically identical to E.A/E.B, but
the compiler seemed to view this as distinct in my experiments.
