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ryandrake on March 7, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ill-Advised C++ Rant, Part 2

What possible use is there for being able to convert the name of an enum as a string that isn't totally bug-ridden the minute you write it?

jjoonathan on March 7, 2016 | [–]

Serialization. And don't tell me that it falls under "bug-ridden the minute you write it" because more defensive programmers than you and I have been using it responsibly in a dozen other languages for more than a dozen years.

stormbrew on March 7, 2016 | [–]

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