From the D Blog: Crafting Self-Evident Code in D

[Dom DiSc]

On Thursday, 5 October 2023 at 00:53:45 UTC, claptrap wrote:
> [...] he is has more interesting things to talk about than 
> whether "enum { yes, no }" is a good idea or not.

His point here was not that having an enum with values for yes 
and no is a bad idea. The bad idea is assigning yes the value 0.
That's a much more subtle point, as here nowhere 0 is written. 
That's what make this kind of mistakes so easy and I think it's 
well worth to explain it to less experienced programmers.

It's not easy to make simple looking code. That has nothing to do 
with (coding-)style, it is all about not defining things a 
different way than it is usually done, so nobody mix it up.
Sometimes it's very hard to find the correct order of things - 
often even experiments are necessary to determine what "usually" 
means.
What he says is: Invest your time to find out what "usually" 
means, and that is not trivial, even if it sounds like it is. It 
requires a lot of experience to come to this conclusion. 
Investing time to make things look easy and obvious is well worth 
it, despite you're likely not payed (or in your case: honored) 
for it.