On Saturday, 31 May 2014 at 22:45:32 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Chris Nicholson-Sauls:
Good... I was starting to fear I was the only one.
In general you can't fix the names in a language because you
always find someone that likes the ones present :) I think
"enum" is a bad name for the purpose of defining manifest
constants, but I don't think this will change.
Bye,
bearophile
In a perfect world, sure, we'd have a different name for it; I'm
not saying I love it, just that it "makes sense" in my head.
I've sometimes thought 'alias' could have worked as well,
especially now with the a=b syntax.
alias DEFAULT_PORT = 11020;
But, then we exchange one set of brow raisers for another set.
In the absence of #define, there probably is no achievable ideal.
:)
