Manifest constants (was const again)

[John Reimer]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> Just like in D we have float[] x  as the improved syntax and float x[] 
>> as legacy syntax, we could have both  "alias Y=X" as new-and-improved 
>> and "alias X Y" as an aid to porting.  As for being confusing, doing 
>> it the wrong way is going to be a compiler error, so I don't think 
>> it's a big deal.
> 
> Looking it in the light of trying to avoid:
>     enum int Y = X;
> I think it is a big deal. The enum form wouldn't have any obvious 
> problems like that.


May I ask what Andrei Alexandrescu's opinion is of using 'enum' as 
manifest const?  Seems to me that this choice wouldn't pass unnoticed by 
him, and I know he has some small influence on D. :-)

-JJR