Justin Johansson wrote:
> Hear, hear, I second the motion .. especially if such feature can be used to 
> implement reverse enums.
> 
> It's tedious writing reverse mapping tables (in C++) for converting the 
> runtime value of an enum back to its symbolic (lexical) name for debug 
> purposes.  Sounds like bearophile's CT AA might help to achieve this facility 
> with ease in D.  Then again, the features of D that I'm still learning about 
> continue to amaze me so perhaps one can do this (reverse enum) thing in D 
> already .. just that it (the mystery feature) hasn't found me yet.
> 
> Cheers
> Justin Johansson
> 

Giving enums a tupleof property would make more sense, I think. I've
always wondered why they don't have it.

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