[Issue 9065] Please consider adding these std.traits

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http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9065



--- Comment #30 from Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> 2012-11-27 04:53:31 PST ---
(In reply to comment #28)
> (In reply to comment #26)
> 
> > It's a shame we don't have a 'manifest' keyword of some sort, it would help
> > avoid confusion. I guess 'enum' was used to cut back on having too many
> > keywords in the language.
> 
> Isn't the whole problem that the compiler and/or linker isn't capable of
> stripping out symbols that are only used at compile time.

It's also one of the things that D got absolutely right!
I never questioned this design for a moment, it makes perfect sense to me, but
as of yesterday my concept of what an enum is has been thrown up in the air for
absolutely no good reason other than terminology used by the D developers.

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