Interesting rant about Scala's issues

[Araq]

On Sunday, 6 April 2014 at 17:52:19 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/6/2014 3:31 AM, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
>> What I mean is the current semantics of enum are as they are 
>> for
>> historical reasons, not because they make (more) sense (than 
>> other
>> possibilities). You showed a lot of examples that makes sense 
>> only
>> because you are used to the current semantics, not because 
>> they are the
>> only option or the option that makes the most sense.
>
> I use enums a lot in D. I find they work very satisfactorily. 
> The way they work was deliberately designed, not a historical 
> accident.

The fact that you are unaware of how it's properly done (hint: 
Pascal got right with 'set of enum' being distinct from 'enum') 
makes it a historical accident.