"version" private word

[Dr. Assembly]

On Tuesday, 31 October 2017 at 15:20:31 UTC, Igor Shirkalin wrote:
> On Tuesday, 31 October 2017 at 14:54:27 UTC, Dr. Assembly wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 31 October 2017 at 13:53:54 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
>> wrote:
>>> On 2017-10-31 14:46, Igor Shirkalin wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> The only alternative is to do something like this:
>>>
>>> version (X86)
>>>     enum x86 = true;
>>> else
>>>     enum x86 = false;
>>>
>>> else version (X86_64)
>>>     enum x86_64 = true;
>>> else
>>>     enum x86_64 = false;
>>>
>>> static if (x86 || x86_64) {}
>>
>> Why is that keyword called enum? is this any related to the 
>> fact enumeration's field are const values? it would be called 
>> invariable or something?
>
> You're right. Enum defines constant or group of constants in 
> compile time.
> The full description of enum can be found here: 
> https://dlang.org/spec/enum.html

thanks. I just find it werid, maybe because I came from C/C++ 
background, where it means only integer types. So enum s = "foo"; 
is really werid. But I'll get used to it.