I got an error today because I added deprecated to an enum member.

Is there a way to achieve this, or am I out of luck? If it isn't doable, should it be?

Here's what I want:

enum PrimitiveType
{
    Points,
    Lines,
    LineStrip,
    Triangles,
    TriangleStrip,
    TriangleFan,
    Quads,

    deprecated("Use LineStrip instead.")
    LinesStrip = LineStrip,
    deprecated("Use TriangleStrip instead.")
    TrianglesStrip = TriangleStrip,
    deprecated("Use TriangleFan instead.")
    TrianglesFan   = TriangleFan
}


PrimitiveType ptype = LinesStrip; //error, Use LineStrip instead.

On Tuesday, 1 August 2017 at 01:12:28 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
> I got an error today because I added deprecated to an enum member.
>
> Is there a way to achieve this, or am I out of luck? If it isn't doable, should it be?
>
> Here's what I want:
>
> enum PrimitiveType
> {
>     Points,
>     Lines,
>     LineStrip,
>     Triangles,
>     TriangleStrip,
>     TriangleFan,
>     Quads,
>
>     deprecated("Use LineStrip instead.")
>     LinesStrip = LineStrip,
>     deprecated("Use TriangleStrip instead.")
>     TrianglesStrip = TriangleStrip,
>     deprecated("Use TriangleFan instead.")
>     TrianglesFan   = TriangleFan
> }
>
>
> PrimitiveType ptype = LinesStrip; //error, Use LineStrip instead.

I did as follows using deprecated may help you to elucidate in relation to this
https://pastebin.com/NEHtWiGx

On Tuesday, 1 August 2017 at 02:06:27 UTC, dark777 wrote:
> I did as follows using deprecated may help you to elucidate in relation to this
> https://pastebin.com/NEHtWiGx

Deprecating an entire module isn't really a solution though. I only want parts of an existing enum to be deprecated when they are used.

On Tuesday, 1 August 2017 at 01:12:28 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
> I got an error today because I added deprecated to an enum member.
>
> Is there a way to achieve this, or am I out of luck? If it isn't doable, should it be?
>
> Here's what I want:
>
> [...]

It's a bug [1].

[1] https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9395