On Wednesday, 2 May 2012 at 16:23:28 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
Well, after more or less telling Alex that he has no clue what
he's talking about,
With no reason, right? Could you go back and read why i did what
you said i did? I might sometimes sound rude. You can blame my
temper, nature or lack of (quite obvious) English language
skills, but these never happen without a reason.
So enum, alias has nothing to do with #define?
Or D requires syntax to support the things i mentioned?
Don't i have a right to expect, someone who answers me already
understand what i am saying or ask nicely to clear it up?
This is not directing Alex but you since i think we settled the
issue, yet you jump as a self appointed lawyer. Nothing i hate as
much as this, pack behavior in humans. It is time for me to leave
this community too, i can stand many things but this. My start on
this forum wasn't very bright either. Called troll for a very
legitimate question, because a few regulars couldn't comprehend
the topic i am talking about and/or my cryptic English.
Whatever.
you implied that most of the »mature« libraries would make
only moderate use of the preprocessor for constants. In this
generality (»Have you ever used a C api, say OpenGL? What are
they using preprocessor for? other than enum and alias?«),
this is simply not true. As Alex pointed out, it's often even
the other way round: The older and more mature a library is,
the more preprocessor macros it uses to deal with various
subtle incompatibilities between all the different systems out
there…
