On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 01:57:39 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 00:32:40 UTC, Cecil Ward
enum foo is essentially a shortcut for enum { foo }. It’s
neither bent out of shape nor twisted. Consider that C++ added
the new keyword constexpr for the same thing. Why pollute the
namespace with a new keyword when you already have one that
fits?
Seriously how it's implemented is irrelevant. When people use it
(for that use case) they arn't thinking ohh right here I want an
enum with one member. They are thinking I want a constant
expression evaluated at compile time. IE, C++ got something right
for once, D let the mechanic name the controls on the dashboard.
It's an "implementers name" and it's retarded beyond belief.
Seriously look up enumeration in a dictionary and explain how
that can be twisted to mean "constant expression" or "evaluated
at compile time".
Names are important, principle of least astonishment and all
that, pretty much everyone coming to D is going be WTF in
learning about that. And if you keep overloading existing
keywords with more and more meanings the code gets harder and
harder to grep at first glance.
