PhobosWatch: manifest => enum

["Jérôme M. Berger"]

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Walter Bright wrote:
> Jérôme M. Berger wrote:
>> Right. Replace "const" by "invariant" in my comment and the main
>> point still stands: couldn't the compiler determine automatically if
>> we take the address of an invariant variable and allocate memory for
>> it or not based on that? This would remove the need for a special
>> keyword/syntax for manifest constants: just declare them as
>> "invariant" and let the compiler do the work.
> 
> Yes, that could be done, but we're still stymied by the problem that we
> are unable to declare a constant of type 'int', only 'const(int)'.

	I don't see any situation in which we would need a constant of type
"int" instead of "const (int)" or "invariant (int)". After all, if
it is a *constant*, it should be either "const" or "invariant", no?

		Jerome
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