Ali Çehreli:
More than that. :) enums are manifest constants.
Imagine that enum as being pasted into source code as is. This
used to have surprising effects for AAs, as an enum AA would be
instantiated from scratch everywhere that AA enum was used in
the code.
I think that some time ago Don has proposed to disallow the
'enum' tag for things like AAs, on the base that such behavour is
not efficient, surprising, and maybe even not useful... I don't
know where his proposal has gone later.
Bye,
bearophile
