I would like to be able to do

    enum MyEnum
    {
        first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh eighth
    }

    MyEnum[100] table =
    [
        MyEnum.first,
        MyEnum.second,
        MyEnum.eighth,
        MyEnum.first,
        ...
    ];

without all that ridiculous qualifying. Maybe it's possible to do that already, but if so, I haven't found anything which compiles. I would have expected the following to work, but it doesn't:

    with(MyEnum) MyEnum[100] table =
    [
        first,
        second,
        eighth,
        first,
        ...
    ];

Apparently, "with" only works with structs and classes - not enums. I'm wondering if this can be extended and made to work also with enums?

(...or if there's something I've missed, someone please tell me).

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:54:12 +0000, Janice Caron wrote: [..]
>     with(MyEnum) MyEnum[100] table =
>     [
>         first,
>         second,
>         eighth,
>         first,
>         ...
>     ];
> 
> Apparently, "with" only works with structs and classes - not enums. I'm wondering if this can be extended and made to work also with enums?
> 
> (...or if there's something I've missed, someone please tell me).

What you ask for is not possible yet.
As far as I can remember, Walter thought about adding this kind of feature
(at least for switch).
But I don't think it got much further since there is much other stuff to
do.

Janice Caron wrote:
> I would like to be able to do
> 
>     enum MyEnum
>     {
>         first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh eighth
>     }
> 
>     MyEnum[100] table =
>     [
>         MyEnum.first,
>         MyEnum.second,
>         MyEnum.eighth,
>         MyEnum.first,
>         ...
>     ];
> 
> without all that ridiculous qualifying. Maybe it's possible to do that
> already, but if so, I haven't found anything which compiles. I would
> have expected the following to work, but it doesn't:
> 
>     with(MyEnum) MyEnum[100] table =
>     [
>         first,
>         second,
>         eighth,
>         first,
>         ...
>     ];
> 
> Apparently, "with" only works with structs and classes - not enums.
> I'm wondering if this can be extended and made to work also with
> enums?
> 
> (...or if there's something I've missed, someone please tell me).

I think using enums without fully qualifying them is a planned feature for D2. At least it says that in the first slides: http://d.puremagic.com/conference2007/speakers.html (see Enum Member Lookup Rules)

So maybe with won't be necessary for enums.

Janice Caron wrote:
> Apparently, "with" only works with structs and classes - not enums.
> I'm wondering if this can be extended and made to work also with
> enums?
> 
> (...or if there's something I've missed, someone please tell me).

This has been requested before, as well:

http://www.digitalmars.com/pnews/read.php?server=news.digitalmars.com&group=digitalmars.D&artnum=40548
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/37925.html

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