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

[deadalnix]

On Wednesday, 23 November 2022 at 08:45:43 UTC, XavierAP wrote:
> On Friday, 18 November 2022 at 15:37:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>>
>> https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/e2ca557ab9d3e60305a37da0d5b58299e0a9de0e/DIPs/DIP1044.md
>
> Another bad idea about this is that it reserves «$» for this 
> purpose, which we may in the future wish we had available for 
> some other worthier feature/paradigm. Apparently choosing «.» 
> instead creates other conflicts.

This is indeed a concern. C++ ran out of good syntax, so now 
every single thing is some convoluted mess. We don't have to take 
the same road.