PhobosWatch: manifest => enum

John Reimer terminal.node at gmail.com
Fri Dec 28 17:13:01 PST 2007


Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:

>> It'll do.  I'd say it's bad, but not that bad (I think "manifest" looked
>> better, personally -- almost pays to go back in time and start adopting
>> the ideas that worked several decades ago... if they indeed did work).
>>
>> Like everything in D, it's one of:
>>
>> (1) we eventually get used to it
>> (2) it eventually gets rejected and deprecated by the designer(s)
>> (3) or d gets abandoned. :-P
> 
> Considering that none of the "established" bad decisions from 1.0 seems to
> be fixed (yet) in 2.0, we are currently gaining in the bad end? Even if
> there is a lot of nice stuff in there too.
> 
> FWIW, I think enum is on the same level as foreach_reverse, although that
> one exposed the problem with keywording such a special case. The usecase
> implemented with enum is at least valid enough.
> 


True.  Can't argue with that.

-JJR



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