Re: I have a feature request: "Named enum scope inference"

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 9/29/12, David Piepgrass <qwertie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I like the spirit of this feature, but as Alex pointed out,
> ambiguity is possible (which could theoretically cause errors in
> existing code)

It could also cause subtle problems because enum values are implicitly
convertible to the enum's base type. Take this for example:

void test(bool state) { }
enum Foo { no, yes }
class Class
{
    enum Bar { yes, no }
    void test() { .test(no); }  // pass Foo.no (true) or Bar.no (false) ?
}