On Wednesday, 9 April 2014 at 15:38:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Too restrictive. What is a valid enum value? Would an enum
flags need to ascribe a name to every possible combination?
Perhaps using enum for bit flags is fundamentally incorrect and
only done because there is no language support for bit flags. If
bit flags were a first-class citizen of the language with its own
semantics, the proposal wouldn't be so restrictive. Adding some
bit flag language support may be one way to improve enum and the
overall language semantics at the same time.
