[Issue 16190] to!string on enum should be fully qualified for consistency

Jun 21, 2016

b2.temp@gmx.com

Jun 21, 2016

Timothee Cour

Mar 21, 2020

Basile-z

Dec 17, 2022

Iain Buclaw

Dec 01

dlangBugzillaToGithub

June 21, 2016

[Issue 16190] to!string on enum should be fully qualified for consistency

Posted by b2.temp@gmx.com

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16190

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--- Comment #1 from b2.temp@gmx.com ---
I think that any fix directly in to() can break a lot of code because currently to!string and to!E work together. I'm sure that it's already used as it is now by many people.

The fix, if any, should maintain the old behvior and allow to get the identifier when explicitly needed, for example:

auto toImpl(T, S, bool fq = false)(auto ref E e)
if (is(S == enum) && is(T==string))
{}

with "fq" a CT bool that indicates if the output includes the "enum
identifier".
"Fully qualified" would mean that even the module name would be included so I
suppose that what you want is actually the enum identifier.

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By the way why do you report this as a dmd (and not phobos) issue ?

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