const again

[Denton Cockburn]

On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:14:39 -0500, guslay wrote:

> Denton Cockburn Wrote:
> 
> 
>> You've mentioned this already, but D's already got too many keywords. 
>> I think enum/macro is fine if it's explained in the docs.
>> 
>> Let's not add more keywords, esp. for minimal net benefit.
> 
> Having specific, obvious keywords for different concepts may cause less
> confusion than selecting a loosely related keyword from the existing
> pool based on a best match approach.
> 
> But then again I am not the one who pays for implementing it so it's
> easy to say.

>From the explanations of what enum actually does in D (which is different 
than C/C++ already), it actually makes a lot of sense.

I figure D changes to the meaning of C/C++ keywords are already 
documented, so it's not a big deal to just add: and it also means...

Why use new keywords to express concepts that are already explainable 
with current and documented keywords...