Manifest constants using 'manifest' keyword?

[Derek Parnell]

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:07:03 -0300, Leandro Lucarella wrote:

> According to phobos changeset 535[1] I guess we have a new 'manifest'
> keyword to define manifest (to be redundant) constants. I really think he
> should went with alias or macro or with other better *existing* keyword,
> but is definitely better than enum.
> 
I agree. Until one gets to know what it means, "manifest" looks like a noun
rather than an adjective. I can just see newbies saying things like ...
"what is a 'manifest'" when confronted with stuff like ...

manifest 
{
   int Foo;
   long Bar;
}



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