Flag proposal

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message 
news:it1cvf$21d4$1 at digitalmars.com...
>
> It's the namespace pollution and the non-self-containedness of the 
> function that's most troublesome. Also see Steve's point about methods. 
> It's just untenable - to use the idiom with a class/struct method, you 
> need to go all the way _outside_ of it an plant a symbol there.
>

You can't put an enum in a class/struct?

> What I find most interesting is that the lack of strong counterarguments 
> has not stood in the way of a strong emotional response.

Correction: Andrei's staunch dismissal of all counterarguments has not stood 
in the way of a strong emotional response.

> This mood has made it difficult for exchange of rational arguments. Funny 
> thing is, the change is tiny.
>
> "Here, I'll add a handful of yes/no enums here and there in the standard 
> library, just to help some algorithms. More to come."
>
> "Yeah, sure, whatevs."
>
> "Here, there's a way to define them once so we don't need to define them 
> everywhere."
>

Correction: "Here, there's a way to solve a barely-existant problem by 
botching up syntax (and error messages) for the user."

> "Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!"
>