Discussion Thread: DIP 1044--Enum Type Inference--Community Review Round 1

[Timon Gehr]

On 20.11.22 17:31, IchorDev wrote:
> On Sunday, 20 November 2022 at 01:00:58 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>> STOP CHANGING THE GOD DAMN SYNTAX! STOP, STOP, STOP, and if you still 
>> have some doubt, STOP! STOP IT!
>> (etc. etc.)
> 
> Thank you for your hateful rant, but please actually read the DIP. `;P`
> I carefully wrote the DIP for ETI in order to avoid breaking or changing 
> the behaviour of any existing code. That's why I settled on the 
> `$member` syntax for the original draft.

His problem is that the compiler will be the first tool that can parse 
the new syntax and other tools will by default not work anymore on code 
that uses the new syntax.