more enum and pragma troubles

[JS]

On Sunday, 18 August 2013 at 00:17:22 UTC, captaindet wrote:
> On 2013-08-17 14:36, Jesse Phillips wrote:
>> Third you've declared a variable, bar, which will store your
>> enumerated value, 4. Variables are not compile time, even if 
>> the
>> value stored came from a compile time known value.
>
> yep, it completely escaped me that these are 'normal' 
> variables. and i have realized now that i can make them known 
> at compile time the same way as is done for other 'normal' 
> variables, by declaring them const ;)
>

But if they are const then what good does that do you? Just use 
an alias or enum in the first place?