On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 06:06:56PM -0400, Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > On 9/17/20 9:13 AM, Simen Kjærås wrote: > > > To be clear: I don't mind 'enum' being used this way, but if I were > > to do things over again, I would have used 'alias'. > > fun fact: for a (very) brief time, D had a `manifest` keyword that did > exactly what enum does in this instance (not even sure it made it into > a release). > > enum is a head scratcher of a name, for sure. But it works out just > fine once you get used to it. I think of it as "compile time". To be > honest, for what it does, enum is a very poor name. But because it's > consistent, it works. [...]
In my mind, I just substitute 'enum' with 'manifest constant' and everything makes sense. ;-) T -- What are you when you run out of Monet? Baroque.
