Interesting rant about Scala's issues

[Eric]

On Sunday, 6 April 2014 at 16:46:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> 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

Hey bearophile - I rest my case...

-Eric