What is the difference between enum and shared immutable?

[Ali Çehreli]

On 10/28/20 3:07 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> A shared immutable is initialized at compile-time,

To prevent a misunderstanding, immutable can be initialized at run time 
as well. On the other hand, immutable initialized at compile time was 
surprising to me when I learned it recently:

import std;

immutable string p;

shared static this() {
   p = environment["PATH"];  // <-- Run time
}

// Ali learned this relatively recently
// (immutable at compile time):
immutable lines = import("myfile.txt").splitter('\n').array;
pragma(msg, lines);

void main() {
}

Ali