Since we do not have attributes for enums, I use _ in front of
the names for meta values.
I need to get the non-meta values for the enum so I can iterate
over it and use it properly.
enum myEnum
{
_Meta1 = 0,
A,B,C,
_Meta3 = 43,
D = 3,
}
The num, for all practical purposes does not contain _Meta1,
and_Meta3. But in code I use to!myEnum(intI) and having the meta
values complicate things(simple shifting may or may not work).
I also need to create array indexers based on myEnum that don't
include the meta characters.
What I do a lot is convert integers in to fields of the enum.
If I do not include any Meta, then it is straight forward
to!myEnum(i), but with them it is not, so doing things like
int[myEnum] x;
x[to!myEnum(i))] is difficult because the conversion will be
invalid for meta. I'd have to do some work on i to get the 0-n
representation to map properly in to the enum... basically
avoiding the meta fields.
This would all be solved with attributes for enums, but that, I
suppose is a pipe dream.
Any ideas how I can make this easy?
