I'm reopening this issue, because it was closed with the move from codeplex, and doesn't seem to have been re-opened. https://typescript.codeplex.com/workitem/1217

I feel like this is very important for a scripting language.-- Especially for objects that are passed back and forth over web service calls.-- People generally don't use integer based enums in json objects that are sent over the wire, which limits the usefulness of the current enum implementation quite a bit.

I would like to re-propose the original contributor's suggestions verbatim.