Manifest constants (was const again)

[Walter Bright]

John Reimer wrote:
> 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. :-)

He immediately liked it. So the condemnation of enum isn't quite as 
universal as one might suspect reading these threads <g>.