Re: Interesting rant about Scala's issues

[Walter Bright]

On 4/5/2014 2:40 AM, Leandro Lucarella wrote:

enum Symbolic { Dogs, Cars, Trees }    // not implicitly casteable (and
                                       // maybe not even expose the
                                       // internal value)

?

struct Symbolic {
    private static struct _impl { private int x; }
    enum Dogs = _impl(0);
    enum Cars = _impl(1);
    enum Trees = _impl(2);
}

Of course, you can hide all this in a template.