http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8509

           Summary: Appending a string to an enum string results in
                    another enum string
           Product: D
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: nobody@puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: jmdavisProg@gmx.com


--- Comment #0 from Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg@gmx.com> 2012-08-04 16:05:27 PDT ---
This code

enum E : string { a = "hello" }

void main()
{
    E e = E.a ~ " world";
    E f = E.a ~ 'w';
}

gives this compilation error:

q.d(6): Error: cannot implicitly convert expression ("hellow") of type string
to E

So, the compiler correctly recognizes that the result of appending a character to an E results in a string rather than an E. However, it should _also_ fail on appending a string to it. "hello world" is not a valid E, and appending an arbitrary string to an enum of type string is not generally going to result in a valid enum value, so the result should be typed as string, not the enum type.

If an operation on an enum type is not _guaranteed_ to result in a valid enum value, then that operation should be illegal, forcing the programmer to cast when they're sure that the result is valid and protecting them from invalid assignments like in the example above.

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--- Comment #1 from github-bugzilla@puremagic.com 2013-05-19 15:46:02 PDT ---
Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/commit/d39288edbee92e241c5a086b297f6afe90c3d764
Fixes Issue 8509 - Appending base type to enum should not result in new enum
type.

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/commit/22f300eb07f6e64f36a3535bee6c00b224249e35 Merge pull request #1240 from AndrejMitrovic/Fix8509

Issue 8509 - Appending base type to enum should not result in new enum type

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--- Comment #2 from Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich@gmail.com> 2013-05-19 17:31:26 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd
> 
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/commit/d39288edbee92e241c5a086b297f6afe90c3d764
> Fixes Issue 8509 - Appending base type to enum should not result in new enum
> type.
> 
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/commit/22f300eb07f6e64f36a3535bee6c00b224249e35 Merge pull request #1240 from AndrejMitrovic/Fix8509
> 
> Issue 8509 - Appending base type to enum should not result in new enum type

Partially fixed, but this test-case still works:

enum En { a = 1 << 1, b = 1 << 2 }
En e = En.a | En.b;

Here 'e' becomes an invalid enum value -- cast(En)6.

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