On Thursday, August 08, 2013 15:40:25 H. S. Teoh wrote: > Are we going to fix this anytime soon (or at all)? If not, we'd better > start documenting this, since currently enums are being sold as manifest > constants, and most people would understand that as meaning it's only > allocated once at compile-time/startup-time. It would leave a very bad > impression if new users unknowingly end up with a lot of unwanted > allocations just from using a language feature as-advertised.
There's nothing to fix. It's by design. That _is_ what a manifest constant is as far as D is concerned. And if you search for manifest constants online, you end up running into stuff that talks about #define in C, which does the same thing. So, I don't think that we're doing anything abnormal here. We just have to make sure that it's clear in the documentation that that's how manifest constants work. I don't know what the documentation currently says though. - Jonathan M Davis
