• Ignacious (17/17) Jan 18 2017 I have the need to create an enum flag like structure to specify
• Ignacious (4/21) Jan 18 2017 I should be clear that I'm using these as flags using EumToFlags
• Nicholas Wilson (15/40) Jan 18 2017 If their only use is for Enum to flags (i.e. you don't care at

Ignacious <I.D.T ProjectMaya.com> writes:

I have the need to create an enum flag like structure to specify 
certain properties of a type easily.

e.g.,

enum properties
{
    Red,
    Blue,
    Hot,
    Sexy,
    Active,
    ...
}

But some properties will be mutually exclusive. I would like to 
contain all those rules for in the enum itself for obvious 
reasons(encapsulation).

I guess I'm going to be told to use static and structs, but I'm 
hoping for a more elegant solution.

Ignacious <I.D.T ProjectMaya.com> writes:

On Thursday, 19 January 2017 at 02:59:04 UTC, Ignacious wrote:
 I have the need to create an enum flag like structure to 
 specify certain properties of a type easily.

 e.g.,

 enum properties
 {
    Red,
    Blue,
    Hot,
    Sexy,
    Active,
    ...
 }

 But some properties will be mutually exclusive. I would like to 
 contain all those rules for in the enum itself for obvious 
 reasons(encapsulation).

 I guess I'm going to be told to use static and structs, but I'm 
 hoping for a more elegant solution.

I should be clear that I'm using these as flags using EumToFlags 
and I want to prevent certain flags from betting set in certain 
combinations that are invalid.

Nicholas Wilson <iamthewilsonator hotmail.com> writes:

On Thursday, 19 January 2017 at 03:47:34 UTC, Ignacious wrote:
 On Thursday, 19 January 2017 at 02:59:04 UTC, Ignacious wrote:
 I have the need to create an enum flag like structure to 
 specify certain properties of a type easily.

 e.g.,

 enum properties
 {
    Red,
    Blue,
    Hot,
    Sexy,
    Active,
    ...
 }

 But some properties will be mutually exclusive. I would like 
 to contain all those rules for in the enum itself for obvious 
 reasons(encapsulation).

 I guess I'm going to be told to use static and structs, but 
 I'm hoping for a more elegant solution.

 I should be clear that I'm using these as flags using 
 EumToFlags and I want to prevent certain flags from betting set 
 in certain combinations that are invalid.

If their only use is for Enum to flags (i.e. you don't care at 
all about the enum)
then you can use std.bitmanip.bitfields to logically group the 
combinations.
i.e. have all the mutually exclusive combination in the same 
field.

e.g.

struct properties
{
     enum colour { red, blue }
     // any other mutually exclusive combinations.
     mixin(bitfields!(colour, "colour" , 1
                             bool  , "hot" , 1));
}