Implicit enum conversions are a stupid PITA

[Bernard Helyer]

On 25/03/10 07:22, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 03/24/2010 12:57 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Andrei Alexandrescu"<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message
>> news:hod5o3$1nhg$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>> On 03/24/2010 08:28 AM, bearophile wrote:
>>>> As
>>>> they say: "Those who cannot learn from C# are doomed to re-invent it,
>>>> often badly."
>>>
>>> Who are "they"?
>>>
>>
>> He was modifying the common expression "Those who don't learn from the
>> past
>> are doomed to repeat it."
>
> But paraphrasing ain't "as they say" because they don't say that.
> Besides, I thought he's paraphrasing "Any sufficiently complicated C or
> Fortran program contains a buggy implementation of Common Lisp." But I
> guess that's just me being cranky - I'm sick.
>

"those who do not understand unix are doomed to reinvent it, poorly."