Manifest constants (was const again)

[Janice Caron]

Hoping to branch this off to a new thread to avoid polluting the const one...

On 12/6/07, Walter Bright <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> That leaves what to do about manifest constants. It occurs that we
> already have a mechanism for them - enums. So why not:
>         enum x = 3;
>         enum long y = 4;
> ? I think that solves our problem.

Will it work for reals?

enum pi = 3.14159265358979;

?