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On Wednesday, 2 May 2012 at 16:23:28 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:

> Well, after more or less telling Alex that he has no clue what 
> he's talking about,

With no reason, right? Could you go back and read why i did what 
you said i did? I might sometimes sound rude. You can blame my 
temper, nature or lack of (quite obvious) English language 
skills, but these never happen without a reason.

So enum, alias has nothing to do with #define?
Or D requires syntax to support the things i mentioned?
Don't i have a right to expect, someone who answers me already 
understand what i am saying or ask nicely to clear it up?

This is not directing Alex but you since i think we settled the 
issue, yet you jump as a self appointed lawyer. Nothing i hate as 
much as this, pack behavior in humans. It is time for me to leave 
this community too, i can stand many things but this. My start on 
this forum wasn't very bright either. Called troll for a  very 
legitimate question, because a few regulars couldn't comprehend 
the topic i am talking about and/or my cryptic English.

Whatever.

> you implied that most of the »mature« libraries would make 
> only moderate use of the preprocessor for constants. In this 
> generality (»Have you ever used a C api, say OpenGL? What are 
> they using preprocessor for? other than enum and alias?«), 
> this is simply not true. As Alex pointed out, it's often even 
> the other way round: The older and more mature a library is, 
> the more preprocessor macros it uses to deal with various 
> subtle incompatibilities between all the different systems out 
> there…