Perhaps. They don't seem to add all that much, and what really pissed me off is having to write extension classes to enums so they would produce a string repres

Perhaps. They don't seem to add all that much, and what really pissed me off is having to write extension classes to enums so they would produce a string representations of themselves. Again and again. Not sure that would help here but if this carries on I will just stick these in python, treating it as a preprocessor. There are other things too. But thanks for the link, will read up.