Non-enum manifest constants: Pie in the sky?

[retard]

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:29:10 -0500, bearophile wrote:

> Nick Sabalausky:
> 
>> then attempting to evaluate
>> blahExpression at compile-time (which I believe it already does) and if
>> it succeeds, then treat it as a manifest constant in any place where
>> it's used (except for the places where it's pointer or reference is
>> taken).
> 
> I think this is not so easy to do.

Why can't we just focus on getting D 2.0 done now. The D community seems 
to mainly consist of people don't care about getting any work done or 
having a stable compiler unless it's faster than lightning.

> Manifest constants can even
> be deprecated in future, once a default implementation of D2 uses a
> better back-end like LLVM.

Digitalmars won't have a commercial D SDK product if they switch the 
backend. I don't think Walter wants to switch to another toolchain. 
Imagine, someone will gladly pay for fixing the dreaded optlink, but 
frankly no one will pay for updates to e.g. llvm or gnu gcc toolchain. 
Even though the quality of gnu toolchain is superior.