Manifest constants (was const again)
Walter Bright
newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Fri Dec 7 19:37:53 PST 2007
Bill Baxter wrote:
> Just like in D we have float[] x as the improved syntax and float x[]
> as legacy syntax, we could have both "alias Y=X" as new-and-improved
> and "alias X Y" as an aid to porting. As for being confusing, doing it
> the wrong way is going to be a compiler error, so I don't think it's a
> big deal.
Looking it in the light of trying to avoid:
enum int Y = X;
I think it is a big deal. The enum form wouldn't have any obvious
problems like that.
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