Re: Accessing types by context

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On Wednesday, 29 June 2016 at 05:06:08 UTC, Hiemlick Hiemlicker 
wrote:
On Wednesday, 29 June 2016 at 03:50:35 UTC, Carl Vogel wrote:
On Wednesday, 29 June 2016 at 03:11:52 UTC, Hiemlick
[...]
Doesn't the with statement solve your problem here?
with (myEnum) {
    test(A);
    test(B);
    test(C);
}

Not really it's, only half the way there. Why not extend the 
language the extra step?

I'm not sure I understand how it doesn't. Inside the with scope 
you could refer to myEnum members by their (unqualified) names 
alone. Isn't this the behaviour you're asking for?

As a pet peeve of mine, it's unfortunate that with: cannot be 
used as attributes can, to last until the end of the current 
scope without adding a new one.

void foo()
{
    with(myEnum):  // doesn't work

    test(A);
    test(B);
    test(C);
}