On 06/25/2010 07:10 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
http://www.drdobbs.com/blog/archives/2010/06/the_x_macro.html
Interesting technique that I haven't heard of. However one of my
friends, a lead programmer at Sega, says they use similar technique
extensively in C++; actually they avoid overusing it, as it slows down
compilation considerably.
And for this particular Color case, enum in D can have a base type:
enum Color: string {
RED = "red",
GREEN = "green",
BLUE = "blue",
}
writeln(Color.RED); // gives "red"
so we don't have that maintainance problem :-)
