Blog series to teach and show off D's metaprogramming by creating a JSON serialiser

[Laurent Tréguier]

On Monday, 4 November 2019 at 08:25:11 UTC, Patrick Schluter 
wrote:
> I don't get why it confuses people.
> In all languages I know (C, C++, Java, Pascal, etc..) they are 
> used to associate a compile time symbols with some quantities, 
> i.e. the definition of constants.
> When an enumeration only consists of 1 value, then the 
> enumeration is this value itself.

If I'm not mistaken `enum` must come from "enumerate" or 
"enumeration", so it's easy to instinctively think of enums as 
having multiple possible values; using such a word for a single 
value is a bit counter-intuitive IMO.