On Tuesday, 27 November 2012 at 21:16:41 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 11/27/2012 9:51 PM, Manu wrote:
There's another you missed:
enum X = 10;
I would have imagined this would be semantically identical to
E.A/E.B,
but the compiler seemed to view this as distinct in my
experiments.
Those are not enums, they are manifest constants. What
distinguishes a manifest constant from, say:
const Y = 11;
is that no storage is allocated for X, and X's address cannot
be taken.
What distinguishes manifest constants from literals? Aren't
manifest constants just literal aliases? That is, if the
following did work
alias Y = 11;
wouldn't that be exactly same as
enum Y = 11;
Perhaps using "alias" instead of "enum" would make the meaning
clearer?
