Re: Overriding to!string on enum types

[monarch_dodra via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 2 September 2014 at 15:41:17 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote:
Unless we allow defining "enum-member functions", AFAIK, it is 
impossible to override the printing behavior for enums...

... If your enum actually represents strings, then you could:

enum CxxRefQualifier : string
{
    none      = "",
    normalRef = "&",
    rvalueRef = "&&",
}

That in itself is not enough, but you *can* cast your enum to 
string, and then print that, or pass that.

See also:
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11571