On Monday, 4 November 2019 at 08:25:11 UTC, Patrick Schluter
wrote:
I don't get why it confuses people.
In all languages I know (C, C++, Java, Pascal, etc..) they are
used to associate a compile time symbols with some quantities,
i.e. the definition of constants.
When an enumeration only consists of 1 value, then the
enumeration is this value itself.
If I'm not mistaken `enum` must come from "enumerate" or
"enumeration", so it's easy to instinctively think of enums as
having multiple possible values; using such a word for a single
value is a bit counter-intuitive IMO.
