On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 10:53:48 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
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I can attest that in the 17 years I've been hanging around
here, the fact that enum is used to indicate a manifest
constant has not been a serious source of WTF posts. So I think
"pretty much everyone coming to D" have decided it's either
perfectly fine or perfectly tolerable. It's the sort of thing
that may not be obvious, but once you figure you absorb it and
get down to coding. I know some people would prefer it were
something else and some don't care. I'm squarely in the camp
that thinks it makes perfect sense and it would be silly to
create a new keyword for it.
A talk at dconf 2019 provided an alternative approach to using
enum for manifest constants:
http://dconf.org/2019/talks/marques.html
