Manifest constants using 'manifest' keyword?

Bill Baxter dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com
Sun Dec 23 05:45:35 PST 2007


Bill Baxter wrote:
> Daniel Keep wrote:
>>
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://www.dsource.org/projects/phobos/changeset/535
>>> Sorry, that's going away.
>>
>> And once again, digitalmars.D gets itself worked into a tizzy over
>> something that doesn't end up happening.  This newsgroup jumps the gun
>> so often, it's a wonder it hasn't been shot in the back.  Well, fatally
>> anyway...
> 
> If Walter would actually post a little more often about what was going 
> on, or get someone else in the cabal to do so, then we wouldn't have to 
> guess.

Or put another way:  Nature abhors a vacuum and this newsgroup abhors an 
information vacuum.  Whatever little leak springs in that vacuum will 
inevitably expand to fill all available space.

--bb



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