Manifest constants - why not 'alias' ?

[Leandro Lucarella]

Walter Bright, el  6 de diciembre a las 16:51 me escribiste:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
> >Enum is short for 'unumeration'.  But manifest constants aren't enumerating anything.  It 
> >makes no sense.
> 
> Because we already use enums to declare constant values.
> 
> enum { x = 3 }

That's the worst reason ever! There are so many things we already use that
sucks...

As has been already said, we use enum to declare constants because is the
only (ugly) way.

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