Strange behaviour of enums in for loops
Max Samukha
spambox at d-coding.com
Sat Jul 18 08:12:22 PDT 2009
On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:55:51 +0200, "Lars T. Kyllingstad"
<public at kyllingen.NOSPAMnet> wrote:
>Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Lars T. Kyllingstad" <public at kyllingen.NOSPAMnet> wrote in message
>> news:h3pooc$13ii$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>> I can't seem to find an existing report on this issue in Bugzilla, but I
>>> find it hard to believe this hasn't been noticed before. That's why I
>>> thought I'd bring it up here before writing a bug report.
>>>
>>
>> Enums have historically been so screwy (buggy) in D maybe people have been
>> avoiding them. Or, maybe I'm not the only one who insists on using "const"
>> for constants instead of "enum", even though D1's const doesn't actually
>> create a true constant (It'd be rare to see an attempt to use a *real*
>> enumeration value in that mannar).
>
>
>I'm using D2, and if I'm not mistaken enum is the only way to define
>manifest constants.
>
>It would be nice to know if anyone can reproduce this bug. In that case
>I'll add it to Bugzilla.
>
>-Lars
This is obviously a bug. Please add it. A possible workaround:
enum { real ONE = 1.0 }
for (real x=0.0; x<=10.0; x+=ONE) writeln(x);
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