Interesting rant about Scala's issues

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 4/6/14, 3:31 AM, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> What I mean is the current semantics of enum are as they are for
> historical reasons, not because they make (more) sense (than other
> possibilities). You showed a lot of examples that makes sense only
> because you are used to the current semantics, not because they are the
> only option or the option that makes the most sense.
>
> Is it better to redesign enum semantics now? Probably not, but I'm just
> saying :)

I fully agree. In my opinion, too, the enum design in D is suboptimal.

Andrei