Manifest constants using 'manifest' keyword?

[Bruce Adams]

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:16:38 -0000, John Reimer <terminal.node at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
>> According to phobos changeset 535[1] I guess we have a new 'manifest'
>> keyword to define manifest (to be redundant) constants. I really think  
>> he
>> should went with alias or macro or with other better *existing* keyword,
>> but is definitely better than enum.
>>  [1] http://www.dsource.org/projects/phobos/changeset/535
>>
>
> Ack!  The masses succeeded in influencing Walter and Andrei... thus  
> proving me completely wrong!  Oh no! :)
>
> That'll teach me about getting all philosophical. :P
>
Poor Walter though. He finally breaks under the strain and changes his  
proposal only to have
yet another thread full of whinges (no offence intended) about the new one.
I guess that's the lot of language designers.