Manifest constants (was const again)

[John Reimer]

Walter Bright wrote:
> 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>.


Yep, that's what I was wondering.  It seemed that there might have been 
some support coming elsewhere. :-)

-JJR